Four artists express their strong links to the Cambridge district in a variety of visual mediums and their work is shown alongside old photographs and newspaper cuttings, all in the pleasant setting of Clare Hall’s exhibition area.
The result is a thought-provoking blend of art, history, memory and politics.
The exhibition has been made possible by the collaboration of Clare Hall’s Art Committee, the Cambridgeshire Collection at the Central Library, sponsors LT123 Ltd and curator Chris Williams of Williams Art. Most of the works are available to buy through Williams Art.
The artists
Ian Rawlinson was born in Cambridge and grew up in the city during the 1960s and 1970s. He studied art at Cambridge College of Art & Technology, now Anglia Ruskin University, leaving the city in 1982 to further his studies. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1987 he has lived and worked in London. His work has been shown in many group and solo exhibitions both in UK and internationally and is included in public and private collections.
Born in Cambridge, Nicholas Juett (whose work is featured above) studied at the Cambridge College of Art and Technology, now Anglia Ruskin University. He then went on to study as an undergraduate art student at Reading University.
As a Rotary Scholar, he had a 14-year career in the States, which included studies at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. A travelling scholarship took Nicholas to Los Angeles where he worked in an art gallery. Nicholas has exhibited alongside artists including David Hockney, John Baldessari and Andy Warhol.
Will Hill is a typographer, educator, and visual artist whose work is concerned with type, letters and the visual properties of language. He is Deputy Head of the School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University where he leads the MA in Graphic Design and Typography. He is the author of The Complete Typographer and contributor to the Phaidon Compendium of Graphic Design and the Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System.
Will’s work as a visual artist has focused upon the typography of environment and architecture, and the street typography of different cities including Budapest, Kracow, New York and Cambridge.
Writer and photographer Karen Frances Eng first encountered the Kite area in 1986 when she came to Cambridge as an exchange student from California.
She subsequently visited every few years, then returned in 2003 to settle permanently in the adjacent Petersfield neighbourhood. In addition to personal and commissioned work, her photographs have been published in both locally and internationally distributed publications.
Karen was a founding member of Cambridge Obscura, a collective of local photographers who explored perspectives of Cambridge typically neglected by the postcard publishers.
The exhibition is at Clare Hall, daily 9am to 6pm until 1 March 2017 and is open to all.
Clare Hall is on Herschel Road (just off Grange Road), and entry is via the Porter’s Lodge. There is limited on-street parking in the area but the college is a pleasant walk or cycle from Garret Hostel Lane along Burrell's Walk past the University Library and across Grange Road. SatNav postcode is CB3 9AL.