Alice Kettle
{{Short description|British artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
Alice Kettle (born 1961) is a British contemporary textile and fiber artist.{{Cite web |title=Alice Kettle - Overview |url=https://candidastevens.com/artists/33-alice-kettle/overview/ |access-date=7 June 2022 |website=Candida Stevens |language=en}}
Biography
Kettle was born in Winchester in Hampshire and studied fine art at the University of Reading from 1979 to 1984 before taking the postgraduate diploma course in textile art at Goldsmiths College during 1985 and 1986.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}} She subsequently received a series of grants and artist-in-residence awards, notably at the Canberra School of Art in Australia, and also took several part-time and visiting teaching posts. Kettle is currently a Professor in Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Kettle's work is focused upon stitched textiles,{{Cite web |title=Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness |url=https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/upcomingexhibitions/alicekettle/ |access-date=2020-04-11 |website=Whitworth Art Gallery}} and explores themes of cultural heritage, journeys and displacement.{{Cite web|url=https://threadbearingwitness.com/|title=Thread Bearing Witness|website=Thread Bearing Witness|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-04-11}} Her stitched works, many the size of huge figurative tapestries, exploit the textures and effects made possible through the harnessing of a mechanical process to intuitive and creative ends.{{Cite web |title=Professor Alice Kettle – Professor of Textile Arts |url=https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/profile/akettle |access-date=2020-04-11 |website=Manchester School of Art}}
Her work is represented in various public collections such as the Crafts Council in London, the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, the Museo Internationale delle Arti Applicate Oggi in Turin, Italy. Commissions by Kettle include works for the National Library of Australia in 1999, plus a work for the School of Music & Drama at the University of Manchester.
Other public works by Kettle include
- a 1994 altar front for the Holy Sepulchre Chapel at Winchester Cathedral,
- Glimpses of India, 1994-1995, for the cruise ship, MV Oriana
- In Camera, 1995-1997, for the Scottish High Court in Edinburgh,
- three altar pieces, 1999-2001, for Gloucester Cathedral.
References
{{reflist}}
External links
{{Art UK bio}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kettle, Alice}}
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:21st-century English women artists
Category:20th-century British women textile artists
Category:20th-century British textile artists
Category:21st-century women textile artists
Category:21st-century British textile artists
Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London