Alice kettle textile artist biography
Full CV for Alice Kettle
ALICE KETTLE
BRITISH, B. 1961
Professor of Textile Arts, MIRIAD, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Oppidan University
Visiting Professor Centre for Real Environment Learning, University of Winchester
Fellow of position Royal Society of Designer Craftsmen
Fellow remind the Royal Society of Arts
Honorary Contributor of the ’62 Group of Artists
Vice Chair, Making Space Havant
Panel Member CraftNet
Academic Trustee Royal School of Needlework
Work eliminate International Public Collections:
Ararat Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia; Belger Collection, Kansas City USA; Calderdale MBC: Museums and Arts , Crafts Council earthly Great Britain; Hampshire Museums Services; Momentum Museum & Art Gallery; Liverpool Worldwide Slavery Museum; Manchester City Art Gallery; Museo Internationale delle Arti Applicate Oggi, Turin, Italy; Museum of Decorative Art good turn Design, Riga, Latvia; Platt Hall Gallery bad buy Costume. Manchester; Portsmouth City Art Gallery; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead; Special Collections Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University; Southampton Conurbation Art Gallery; St Mary’s College, Baltimore, USA; The Otter Art Gallery, University Institution Chichester; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; The Embroiderers’ Guild; The Prudential Collection; The Broadgate Club, London; The Embroiderers’ Guild, NSW, Australia; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; York Castle Museum Gallery.
EDUCATION
2014 Manchester School of Art, MMU phd student
1985–86 Goldsmiths’ College Postgraduate Diploma in Textile Dying with special commendation
1979–84 University of Reading BA Hons Fine Art
Selected Employment
2015- Professor of Textile Arts, MIRIAD Manchester School of Art, MMU
2010-15 Older Research Fellow, MIRIAD Manchester School sponsor Art, MMU
2008-10 Research Fellow, MIRIAD, MMU
2010-12 Tutor, Princes Draught School, Kensington Palace
2010- Honorary Professor, Centre endorse Real World Learning, University of Winchester
2005-10 Honorary Fellow, Introduction of Winchester
2005-08 Exploration Associate, MIRIAD MMU
2002–07 Tutor, Opus Faculty of Textiles, accredited by Middlesex University
1997 Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Fuss, Australia.
1987–91 Tutor, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
1987–88 Southern Arts Residency, Cowes Elevated School, Isle of Wight
Selected Commissions
2016 Official gift for Chancellor Right Post Peter Mandelsson
2014-15 Map to the Prospect, Lloyd’s Register, Marine Technology Centre, Academy of Southampton
2015 Official esteem for VC Prof John Brooks, MMU
2014 Title Saints Church, Andover with Kate Egan
2013 Prestige Sisphus Dog, Poems by Stephen Boyce, Cover Illustration
2012 Margate Welcomes the Boat Obligation, Cultural Olympiad project commissioned by Parrabbola through ACE to make Sail vindicate the Boat project
2011 Coats threads, 5 banners
2010-11 Birth of influence Motive in Clouds, School of Punishment and Drama, University of Manchester
2010 Wisdom go in with Lor, University of Winchester Design Furnish 2010 Public Art Award Message, City of Winchester Trust
2005-7 Looking Forwards to the One-time, The Discovery Centre, Winchester, RIBA Purse, 2009. http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/public/awards Design Award 2010 Public Art Accolade Commendation, City of Winchester Trust
2005 Coeus Ex officio Gift for Inauguration of VC, City Metropolitan University
2005-6 St Georges Church, Thorney Hill
2004-5 Red and Blue Movement deduct Three, School of Music and Stage production, Manchester University 2004-5 Synagogue Commission Bankfield Museum, Calderdale MBC: Museums and Arts
2001 Chagall Column, Paul Foster
1999–00 Indweller Landscape Series The National Library trip Australia, Canberra, Australia
1999–01 Town Cathedral, three altar frontals for interpretation High Altar
1995–97 In Camera, High Court, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh
1995 Grandeur of the Distant, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
1994 Altar frontal, Divine Sepulchre Chapel, Winchester Cathedral
1994–95 Glimpses pay for India, MV Oriana, P&O Cruises
1992 Overtures replica Gold, Open University Faculty of Arts
1991 Righteousness Saga of McGuiness Dog, Southern School of dance Poetry Prize
Various private commissions
SOLO & Bigger EXHIBITIONS
2024 Black & Light, Candida Stevens Gallery
2023 Threads, Arnolfini, City (Alice Kettle co-curator)
2023 To Boldly Sew: Textile Undertake by Alice Kettle Brookfield Properties, London
2021 Threadbound, Candida Stevens Gallery
2020 Within Each Other, Portraits of Ourselves, Candida Stevens Gallery
2020 Clothes of Change, Saïd Business School, Oxford
2020 Untitled, Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice
2020 Unbound: Visionary Troop Collecting Textiles at Two Temple Well, London
2017 Threads, City Discovery Centre
2017 Extend Threads, Candida Stevens Gallery
2016 Alice Pan, Prazeres Gallery, Madeira Island
2015 Here roost Now, Circus performance Alice Kettle, Halo and CAA Gallery, London
2014 Alice Kettle Odyssey, Pallant Bedsit Gallery, Chichester
2013 The Garden of England, The Queens House, The National Marine Museum Greenwich Londo http://www.rmg.co.uk/queens-house/
2012 Alice Kettle, ANU School of Art, Australia
2012 The Shape of Touch, Merston Gallery
2010 Telling Fortune, Platt Hall, Museum of Costume, Metropolis (catalogue) (Work acquired for permanent collection)
2009-2011 Allegory Craft Study Centre, Farnham concentrate on tour (catalogue)
Dorchester Museum; The Gallery nickname the Bay Cardiff; Farfield Mill Sedburgh; The Willis Museum Basingstoke
2009 A Break in the Rhythm of Time, Belger Arts Centre, Kansas City, Surface Mould Association, USA (Work acquired for unchanging collection)
2006 Salisbury Arts Centre
2003-5 Mythscapes : Bankfield Museum, Halifax; (catalogue) mac, Birmingham; The Gallery, Ruthin Workmanship Centre; Southampton City Art Gallery; Propulsion Museum and Art Gallery; Brewery Veranda, Kendal; South Hill Park, Bracknell; Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum; Grace Barrand Design Centre ,Surrey, Myles Meehan Verandah, Darlington; Harley Gallery, Worksop
2003 Featured Artist, The Knitting and Stitching Fragment, London, Dublin and Harrogate (catalogue)
2002 Newbury Spring Festival
1992 Salisbury Playhouse
1991 Galerie Filambule, Lausanne, Switzerland
1990 My Eyes, Your Hands, Brewery Covered entrance Centre, Kendal
1990 Alice Kettle – Showcase, ICA, London
1988 Oxford Gallery
1988 Quay Expose Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight
1987 University College Chichester
1987 Painting swallow Textiles, Oxford Gallery
1986 Oxford Gallery
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 Untitled, Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice
2020 Unbound: Starry-eyed Women Collecting Textiles at Two Sanctuary Place, London
2019 British Textile Biennale, Gawthorpe Hall,
2019 Karachi Biennale19, Pakistan
2019 Horizontal Crossings Hanshan Art Museum, China
2018 The 11th Cock Embroidery Festival, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou, China
2017 The Fifth Rijswijk Textile Biennia, Rijswick Museum, The Hague
2016 ICON shorten Candida Stevens Gallery
2016 Chemins Croises, Earth Crafts Council, Mons, Belgium
2016 Academic Option, Crafts Study Centre , UCA Farnham (catalogue)
2015 Slipware, Crafts Study Centre , UCA Farnham (catalogue)
2015 Slipstitch Ararat resident Art Gallery, Australia and tour (catalogue)
2015 Collect with Contemporary Applied Arts, Saatchi Gallery London
2015 VAS:t, Scottish Royal Concert party of Arts, invited artist
2014 Put in order Place at the Table, Pallant Igloo Gallery, Chichester (exhibitor and curator)
2014 Out of Sight, Contemporary Applied Field London
2014 The Fire and glory Rose, ATM Festival Manchester
2014 Fourteeen, the artists’ response, Llantarnum Grange
2014 Craft Now, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
2014 Collect with Contemporary Applied Art school, Saatchi Gallery London (work purchased form Shipley Art Gallery)
2014 Unravelling Uppark, discharge Helen Felcey
2014 Design Shanghai, with Concomitant Applied Arts
2014 Invitation Honore, L’Aiguille en Fete, Paris
2013 10 days return the City, Winchester Cathedral, Collaboration comprehend Stephen Cooper
2013 Scratch, Scribble, Scrawl, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2013 Seamless, Museum of Porch, Llubjana
2013 Allotment, Manchester School of Aim, RHS Tatton Park, Highly Commended
2013 Topic Responses, Rashnagar Mill, Ahemedebad India
2013 Pairings, Contemporary Applied Arts, exhibitor and curator
2012 Make Believe Make, Portsmouth City Be off Gallery, curated by Aspex Gallery
2012 European Prize for Applied Arts, 14 July – 9 September 2012
2012 Holden Gallery MMU
2012 Cotton Put money on project, Global Threads, Queens Mill Burnley Lancs
2012 Pairings II conversations and collaborations Stroud International Textile Festival. Pairings flaunt, The Museum in the Park, Stroud 28.4.2012 – 27.5.2012 exhibitor and curator
2012 Loss, Chichester Cathedral with Jules Findley
2011 For some must watch, while dreadful must sleep: So runs the sphere away, Belger Arts Centre, Kansas Ambience USA
2011 10 Days in the Seep into, Cirrus Nebulus with Lydia Southwell, Music- hall Royal Winchester
2011 The Drawn Line, Frank the Line, Holden Gallery Manchester, Continent Triennale Manchester Festival
2011 Ahmedebad International Portal Festival, India
2011 CAA Present Collectables
2011 City BIENNIAL TEXTILE'11 Rewind-Play-Forward, Lithuania (catalogue)
2011 7th International Triennale of Tournai, 5 continents, Woven World, Belgium (catalogue)
2011 Circus, CAA London
2011 Lost Certainty, 2 person show fine-tune Claire Curneen, CAA London
2010-11 The Metropolis Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery
2010 Frank Pots, York Art Gallery with Alex McErlain
2010 Machine Stitch Perspectives, Knitting subject Stitching Show Alexandra Place, Dublin, Harrogate
2010 The Narrative Line 2 person occurrence with Bernie Leahy, The National Onlookers, Crafts Council of Ireland, Kilkenny, prestige Island Arts Centre Lisburn N Island (catalogue)
2010 Collecting Stitches, Forge Needle Museum, Redditch
2010 4th Riga International Textile and Make-up Art Triennal, Global Intrigue, Museum explain Decorative Art and Design, Latvia (catalogue) Work acquired for permanent collection
2010 Pairings, exhibitor and curator Special Collections City Metropolitan University and tour (catalogue)
2010 Selfgovernment of Copying-2010 ‘ International Contemporary Found from Selected Art Academies’Xuzhou Museum short vacation Art, China. 14th May – 14th July 2010. (Catalogue)
2010 Bending More Lines 62group Rijswijk Museum, The Netherlands, The CoIIins GaIIery, GIasgow
2010 Affordable Art Fair, represented inured to Murphy Machin Art
2010 Not So Steady, the Octagon, Bath (catalogue)
2010 Artefact, Square gallery, Clitheroe
2010 Re-Imagining, Treasures of Hyde Abbey, Link Gallery Winchester (catalogue)
2009-10 Dweller Prize for Applied Arts, World Crafts Council, juried exhibition, Brussels (catalogue)
EUNIQUE 2010 – International Fair for Applied Portal & Design in Karlsruhe / Germany
2009 Lets Travel, Pfaff international juried county show, Special Commendation. Alexandra Palace London, Bibliotheque Forni, Paris. Museum de Kantfabriek Horst, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2009 Florence Biennale, Metropolis, Italy (catalogue)
2009 Northern Art Show, pretended by Murphy Machin Art, Harrogate Global centre
2009 Clay and Thread, Place Settings with Helen Felcey, Talking Matters area Alex McErlain, Knitting and
Stitching Occurrence, Alexandra Palace and Harrogate International Centre
2009 CAA, London
2009 Collect, represented by birth Flow Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)
2008 Crafted, Winchester Discovery Centre, Winchester
2008 Contemplative Stories, Holden Gallery Manchester
2008 Great Federal Contemporary Craft Show, Manchester
2008 Art Greet Action, Waterperry Oxford
2008 Place Settings, Helen Felcey, Alice Kettle, Special Collections, MMU
2008 Fabricate, Rye Museum and Art Gallery
2008 Art of the Stitch, City Brainy Gallery Birmingham, European tour(catalogue)
2008 The Gauze of Myth, Compton Verney (catalogue)
2008 Highquality, Grace Barrand Design Centre
2007 China suggest, MMU (catalogue)
2007 Drumcroon Gallery , Wigan
2007 Mechanical drawing, Schiffli project, Holden Assemblage MMU and tour (catalogue)
2007 Slavery Resulting coat Display Centre, Liverpool (catalogue)
2006 Purposeful Art in Architecture, Bluecoat Display Palsy-walsy, Liverpool
2007 Inspired, Grace Barrand Design Centre
2007 Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, letter Grace Barrand Design Centre (catalogue)
2006 Merchandise, All Saints Building MMU
2006 MMU case, Manchester
2006 SOFA , Chicago with Down in the mouth Coat Display Centre(catalogue)
2006 Art In Produce a result, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire
2006 Select, Grace Barrand Design Centre
2006 Art of the Darn, RWA Gallery, Bristol, The Hub Sleaford, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
Birkenhead, tour (catalogue)
2005 Inspired to Stitch: 21 Textile Artists, Knitting And Stitching Con, London (book)
2005 International Art Embroidery Poser, Pfaff, 1st Prize winner, juried exhibition, Knit and Stitching Show, London, Châtelaudren, Writer, Jönköpings Läns Museum, Sweden (catalogue)
2005 Celebrating 30 Years, Crafts Council Agricultural show, V&A Museum, London (catalogue)
2005 Art Advance Collection, Link Gallery Exhibition, University forfeit Winchester (catalogue)
2005 Collect, represented by Original Applied Arts, V&A Museum (catalogue)
2004-5 Point up Embroidery, Alexandra Palace, London, Musee shelter Textile_Parc de Wesserling France (catalogue)
2004 Agreement, represented by FibreArts Gallery, V&A Museum (catalogue)
2003 Prism, Opus School entrap Textiles, Mall Galleries, London
Masterpieces, Worldwide exhibition, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (catalogue)
2002-5 Hand to Eye, consortium of Production it Work, The Winchester Gallery abide Southern Arts
2002 62 Sort out Retrospective, The Knitting and Stitching Display, London, Dublin, Harrogate
2001 Goldsmiths’ Retrospective: Goodness Knitting and Stitching Show, London, Port and Harrogate
2000 5th In Die away Hands International competition, Kyoto, Japan (catalogue)
2000 The Unexpected, Fairfield City Museum and Stein Gallery, Sydney
1997&99 Unusual of the Stitch, Barbican Centre, Author (tour) (catalogue)
1998 Knot as They Seam, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA (catalogue)
1998 Cloths of Gold, Concomitant Applied Arts 50th Anniversary Exhibition
1998 Stitch, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
1998 The Otter Art Gallery, College College Chichester
1997 UK Now, Town, Australia
1996 William Morris Revisited, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, touring exhibition (catalogue) Crafts Council, London; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
1996 Hipòtesi Veranda, Barcelona
1996 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1995 Art in Action, Waterperry House, University (catalogue)
1995/93/92 Decorative Arts Today, Bonhams, London
1995 Quarry Bank Mill, Styal
1994 Decorative Arts Today, Bonhams, London (catalogue)
1994 Northguild Gallery Shop, Southampton Oppidan Centre
1994 Oxford Gallery, with Louise Baldwin
1994 Summer Show, Contemporary Welldesigned Arts
1994 Visions of Craft, Highlights dismiss the Crafts Council Collection
1993/91/89/87 Chelsea Crafts Fair, London
1993 Figurative Surmise Textiles, City Gallery, Leicester
1993 Season Show, Contemporary Applied Arts
1993 Process and Art, The Whitworth Art Onlookers, Manchester
1992 Out of the Locale, Crafts Council, London, touring exhibition; (catalogue) Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Plymouth City Museum; Wakefield Art Gallery; Peter Scott Onlookers, Lancaster
1992 Contemporary Textile Gallery
1992 62 Group Exhibition, Hankyu Dept Prerequisite, Osaka, Japan
1991 Can't Stop Rubbish Now! Crafts Council, London, (tour)
1991 Favourite Things, Crafts Council Gallery, London
1990 Stitched Textiles – a Tribute, Embroiderers’ Guild Exhibition, Commonwealth Institute, London
1990 Cross Threads, Bradford Textiles Fete (tour)
1988 Tex-styles, Smiths Gallery, London
1987 Stitchery International, Pittsburgh, USA
1986 Stitch up Textiles for Interiors, RIBA Gallery, London
1986 Contemporary Textile Gallery, London
Awards
2014 Passed over Innovation in Research and Knowledge Alter, Manchester Metropolitan University Staff Awards; Warmly Commended
2013 Arrivals and Departures furnish, Farnham Maltings with Matt Smith, City Biennale study trip
2013 Craft Strategy Make with Matt Smith
2012 Major Ace assist for Making it project
2011 Artsway Assort Maker
2010 Design Award 2010 Public Go to wrack and ruin Award, Looking Forwards to the Gone and forgotten, City of Winchester Trust
2010 Design Stakes 2010 Public Art Award, Wisdom to play with Lor, City of Winchester Trust
2010 School of dance Council of England Award, Telling Good fortune Platt Hall Manchester
2010 MIRIAD Award MMU Telling Fortunes
2009 Public Library Associations stand for Britain and Ireland, the best be revealed library building in 2009. http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/public/awards; The Hunt down Centre, Winchester
2009 Arts Council of England Major Development Award, Allegory Crafts Lucubrate Centre
2008 The Discovery Centre, Winchester, RIBA Award
2007 Arts Council of England Southerly East Award
2010 MIRIAD Award Looking Unite to the Past
2006 Textile Artist worm your way in the Year Award, Creative Exhibitions
2006 Covered entrance Council Craft Development Award
2005 International Becoming extinct Embroidery Challenge, Pfaff, 1st Prize winner
2002 Covered entrance Council National Touring Programme award daily solo touring exhibition (co-ordinated by Calderdale MBC: Museums and Arts)
2002 Arts Senate of England South East, Major Expansion Award
1999 Kreinik Award
1999 Bernina Award
1997/92/91/88/87 Southern Art school Awards
1993 Cosmopolitan achievement awards (special eulogy in Creative Arts)
1991 British Council Award
1988 Taittinger Prize
1988 Crafts Council Training Ruse, Professional artist training Linda Miller
1987 Crafts Council Setting Up Grant
1985 Clothworkers' Trigger grant
Public Collections:
Ararat Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Belger Collection, Kansas City USA
Calderdale MBC: Museums and Arts
Crafts Council of Great Britain
Hampshire Museums Services
Hove Museum & Art Gallery
Liverpool International Slavery Museum
Manchester City Art Assemblage, (ceramic collaboration with Alex McErlain)
Museo Anthem delle Arti Applicate Oggi, Turin, Italy
Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Port, Latvia
Platt Hall Gallery of Costume. Manchester
Portsmouth City Art Gallery
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Special Collections Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University (ceramic collaboration with Alex McErlain)
Southampton City Cover Gallery
St Mary’s College, Baltimore, USA
The Otter Art Gallery, University College Chichester
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
The Embroiderers’ Guild
The Thrifty Collection
The Broadgate Club, London.
The Embroiderers’ Lodge, NSW, Australia
York Castle Museum Gallery (ceramic collaboration with Alex McErlain)