Alice kettle textile artist biography


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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)