Laura Freeman on Jim Ede & Kettle’s Yard

Marina spoke with Laura Freeman about her new book, Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists. Remarkably, this is the first biography of Jim Ede ever to appear. It’s a marvellous book — already a shop favourite this summer — studded with anecdotes: Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth arguing over who first put a hole in their sculpture; studio visits to Brancusi and Picasso; a hypochondriac David Jones; the Tate flood; etc. 

Interviewed by Marina Scholtz 

Edited by Magnus Rena 

Music: César Franck, Prélude, FWV 21 

Photo credit: Paul Allitt