Michael Harrison
At the time of interview Michael was Director of Kettle's Yard. He has held this post since 1992. Michael has longstanding links with Kettle's Yard which date back to the beginning of his career in the 1970s when he worked for the Arts Council. The recordings take the form of a walkabout around Kettle's Yard with descriptions of individual artworks and objects.
Interviewed: 2008-06-19By: Bettina Furnee, Juliana Vandegrift
Length: 1 hour 0 mins
Media: On 4 tracks
Interview id: MYKY13
Taking the new post of Director in 1992
View: Transcript Theme: House as gallery
There were one, two, three, four curators before I came. Two were women who had been appointed to... on Jim's instructions that his successors should be young, which I wasn't, and I think his instructions included the assumption that they would be male and that the job they would be doing would be called 'resident' and Jim of course had seen Kettle's Yard as a home, as a place where he lived, and he imagined that his successors would do likewise and in the beginning that was so. The first curator lived here - good heavens - but with my appointment the thought was that Kettle's Yard was developing. If you look at the map of Kettle's Yard and think of the cottages to start with, it's spread itself over the years and at that stage in the early nineties there were plans for further development and it was becoming an organisation which was taking on more and more and the thought was that it needed somebody with a little more experience and somebody longer in the tooth and that's when I appeared on the scene.
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