Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge is a particularly appropriate venue in which to stage the first major exhibition of work by the 20th-century Chinese artist Li Yuan-chia, and his many friends, collaborators and associates.
The Cambridge gallery was established by collectors Jim and Helen Ede in the late 1950s as a home, a meeting place and also a sort of museum; somewhere people could come to share in artistic practice. Li, meanwhile, was engaged in a similarly idealistic project at his home in the tiny village of Banks, close to Hadrian’s Wall in Cumbria, which for more than a decade from the early 70s operated as the LYC Museum and Art Gallery.
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