A new exhibition explores empire, love and loss through paintings of flowers from 1900

By Judith Brocklehurst, Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art Mixed Media, University of Westminster

The term “handpicked” suggests a bouquet that has been chosen carefully, each flower selected for its colour, form or meaning and relation to the others. The curators of this new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge have certainly achieved a complex yet complementary arrangement.

This small but rich exhibition was picked and approved with the help of The Kettle’s Yard Community Panel – a collective of Cambridge…

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