Full CV for Alice Kettle
ALICE KETTLE
BRITISH, B. 1961
Professor of Textile Arts, MIRIAD, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
Visiting Professor Centre for Real World Learning, University of Winchester
Fellow of the Royal Society of Designer Craftsmen
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Honorary Member of the ’62 Group of Artists
Vice Chair, Making Space Havant
Panel Member CraftNet
Academic Trustee Royal School of Needlework
Work in International 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 Gallery; Museo Internationale delle Arti Applicate Oggi, Turin, Italy; Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Riga, Latvia; Platt Hall Gallery of Costume. Manchester; Portsmouth City Art Gallery; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead; Special Collections Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University; Southampton City Art Gallery; St Mary’s College, Baltimore, USA; The Otter Art Gallery, University College 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 Art 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 Senior Research Fellow, MIRIAD Manchester School of Art, MMU
2008-10 Research Fellow, MIRIAD, MMU
2010-12 Tutor, Princes Drawing School, Kensington Palace
2010- Honorary Professor, Centre for Real World Learning, University of Winchester
2005-10 Honorary Fellow, University of Winchester
2005-08 Research Associate, MIRIAD MMU
2002–07 Tutor, Opus School of Textiles, accredited by Middlesex University
1997 Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, Australia.
1987–91 Tutor, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
1987–88 Southern Arts Residency, Cowes High School, Isle of Wight
Selected Commissions
2016 Official gift for Chancellor Right Honorable Peter Mandelsson
2014-15 Map to the Future, Lloyd’s Register, Marine Technology Centre, University of Southampton
2015 Official gift for VC Prof John Brooks, MMU
2014 All Saints Church, Andover with Kate Egan
2013 The Sisphus Dog, Poems by Stephen Boyce, Cover Illustration
2012 Margate Welcomes the Boat Project, Cultural Olympiad project commissioned by Parrabbola through ACE to make Sail for the Boat project
2011 Coats threads, 5 banners
2010-11 Birth of the Motive in Clouds, School of Music and Drama, University of Manchester
2010 Wisdom ond Lor, University of Winchester Design Award 2010 Public Art Award Commendation, City of Winchester Trust
2005-7 Looking Forwards to the Past, The Discovery Centre, Winchester, RIBA Award, 2009. http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/public/awards Design Award 2010 Public Art Award Commendation, City of Winchester Trust
2005 Coeus Official Gift for Inauguration of VC, Manchester Metropolitan University
2005-6 St Georges Church, Thorney Hill
2004-5 Red and Blue Movement in Three, School of Music and Drama, Manchester University 2004-5 Chapel Commission Bankfield Museum, Calderdale MBC: Museums and Arts
2001 Chagall Column, Paul Foster
1999–00 Australian Landscape Series The National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
1999–01 Gloucester Cathedral, three altar frontals for the High Altar
1995–97 In Camera, High Court, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh
1995 Grandeur of the Seas, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
1994 Altar frontal, Holy Sepulchre Chapel, Winchester Cathedral
1994–95 Glimpses of India, MV Oriana, P&O Cruises
1992 Overtures of Gold, Open University Faculty of Arts
1991 The Saga of McGuiness Dog, Southern Arts Poetry Prize
Various private commissions
SOLO & MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dark & Light, Candida Stevens Gallery
2023 Threads, Arnolfini, Bristol (Alice Kettle co-curator)
2023 To Boldly Sew: Textile Art by Alice Kettle Brookfield Properties, London
2021 Threadbound, Candida Stevens Gallery
2020 Within Each Other, Portraits of Ourselves, Candida Stevens Gallery
2020 Threads of Change, Saïd Business School, Oxford
2020 Untitled, Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice
2020 Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles at Two Temple Place, London
2017 Threads, Winchester Discovery Centre
2017 More Threads, Candida Stevens Gallery
2016 Alice Kettle, Prazeres Gallery, Madeira Island
2015 Here and Now, Circus performance Alice Kettle, Circus and CAA Gallery, London
2014 Alice Kettle Odyssey, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2013 The Garden of England, The Queens House, The National Maritime 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 Fortunes, Platt Hall, Museum of Costume, Manchester (catalogue) (Work acquired for permanent collection)
2009-2011 Allegory Craft Study Centre, Farnham and tour (catalogue)
Dorchester Museum; The Gallery in the Bay Cardiff; Farfield Mill Sedburgh; The Willis Museum Basingstoke
2009 A Pause in the Rhythm of Time, Belger Arts Centre, Kansas City, Surface Design Association, USA (Work acquired for permanent collection)
2006 Salisbury Arts Centre
2003-5 Mythscapes : Bankfield Museum, Halifax; (catalogue) mac, Birmingham; The Gallery, Ruthin Craft Centre; Southampton City Art Gallery; Hove Museum and Art Gallery; Brewery Arts, Kendal; South Hill Park, Bracknell; Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum; Grace Barrand Design Centre ,Surrey, Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington; Harley Gallery, Worksop
2003 Featured Artist, The Knitting and Stitching Show, London, Dublin and Harrogate (catalogue)
2002 Newbury Spring Festival
1992 Salisbury Playhouse
1991 Galerie Filambule, Lausanne, Switzerland
1990 My Eyes, Your Hands, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
1990 Alice Kettle – Showcase, ICA, London
1988 Oxford Gallery
1988 Quay Art Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight
1987 University College Chichester
1987 Painting and Textiles, Oxford Gallery
1986 Oxford Gallery
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 Untitled, Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice
2020 Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles at Two Temple Place, London
2019 British Textile Biennale, Gawthorpe Hall,
2019 Karachi Biennale19, Pakistan
2019 Horizontal Crossings Hanshan Art Museum, China
2018 The 11th China Embroidery Festival, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou, China
2017 The Fifth Rijswijk Textile Biennia, Rijswick Museum, The Hague
2016 ICON with Candida Stevens Gallery
2016 Chemins Croises, World Crafts Council, Mons, Belgium
2016 Academic Choice, Crafts Study Centre , UCA Farnham (catalogue)
2015 Slipware, Crafts Study Centre , UCA Farnham (catalogue)
2015 Slipstitch Ararat regional Art Gallery, Australia and tour (catalogue)
2015 Collect with Contemporary Applied Arts, Saatchi Gallery London
2015 VAS:t, Scottish Royal Society of Arts, invited artist
2014 A Place at the Table, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (exhibitor and curator)
2014 Out of Sight, Contemporary Applied Arts London
2014 The Fire and the Rose, ATM Festival Manchester
2014 Fourteeen, the artists’ response, Llantarnum Grange
2014 Craft Now, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
2014 Collect with Contemporary Applied Arts, Saatchi Gallery London (work purchased for Shipley Art Gallery)
2014 Unravelling Uppark, with Helen Felcey
2014 Design Shanghai, with Contemporary Applied Arts
2014 Invitation Honore, L’Aiguille en Fete, Paris
2013 10 days in the City, Winchester Cathedral, Collaboration with Stephen Cooper
2013 Scratch, Scribble, Scrawl, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2013 Seamless, Museum of Art, Llubjana
2013 Allotment, Manchester School of Art, RHS Tatton Park, Highly Commended
2013 Material Responses, Rashnagar Mill, Ahemedebad India
2013 Pairings, Contemporary Applied Arts, exhibitor and curator
2012 Make Believe Make, Portsmouth City Art Gallery, curated by Aspex Gallery
2012 European Prize for Applied Arts, 14 July – 9 September 2012
2012 Holden Gallery MMU
2012 Cotton Exchange project, Global Threads, Queens Mill Burnley Lancs
2012 Pairings II conversations and collaborations Stroud International Textile Festival. Pairings exhibition, 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 some must sleep: So runs the world away, Belger Arts Centre, Kansas City USA
2011 10 Days in the City, Cirrus Nebulus with Lydia Southwell, Theatre Royal Winchester
2011 The Drawn Line, Extending the Line, Holden Gallery Manchester, Asian Triennale Manchester Festival
2011 Ahmedebad International Arts Festival, India
2011 CAA Present Collectables
2011 KAUNAS 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 with Claire Curneen, CAA London
2010-11 The Manchester Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery
2010 Honest Pots, York Art Gallery with Alex McErlain
2010 Machine Stitch Perspectives, Knitting and Stitching Show Alexandra Place, Dublin, Harrogate
2010 The Narrative Line 2 person show with Bernie Leahy, The National Gallery, Crafts Council of Ireland, Kilkenny, the Island Arts Centre Lisburn N Ireland (catalogue)
2010 Collecting Stitches, Forge Needle Museum, Redditch
2010 4th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennal, Global Intrigue, Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Latvia (catalogue) Work acquired for permanent collection
2010 Pairings, exhibitor and curator Special Collections Manchester Metropolitan University and tour (catalogue)
2010 Power of Copying-2010 ‘ International Contemporary Design from Selected Art Academies’Xuzhou Museum of 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 by Murphy Machin Art
2010 Not So Fast, the Octagon, Bath (catalogue)
2010 Artefact, Platform gallery, Clitheroe
2010 Re-Imagining, Treasures of Hyde Abbey, Link Gallery Winchester (catalogue)
2009-10 European Prize for Applied Arts, World Crafts Council, juried exhibition, Brussels (catalogue)
EUNIQUE 2010 – International Fair for Applied Arts & Design in Karlsruhe / Germany
2009 Lets Travel, Pfaff international juried exhibition, Special Commendation. Alexandra Palace London, Bibliotheque Forni, Paris. Museum de Kantfabriek Horst, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2009 Florence Biennale, Firenze, Italy (catalogue)
2009 Northern Art Show, represented by Murphy Machin Art, Harrogate International centre
2009 Clay and Thread, Place Settings with Helen Felcey, Talking Matters with Alex McErlain, Knitting and
Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace and Harrogate International Centre
2009 CAA, London
2009 Collect, represented by the Flow Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)
2008 Crafted, Winchester Discovery Centre, Winchester
2008 Reflective Stories, Holden Gallery Manchester
2008 Great Northern Contemporary Craft Show, Manchester
2008 Art In 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 Art Gallery Birmingham, European tour(catalogue)
2008 The Fabric of Myth, Compton Verney (catalogue)
2008 Select, Grace Barrand Design Centre
2007 China show, MMU (catalogue)
2007 Drumcroon Gallery , Wigan
2007 Mechanical drawing, Schiffli project, Holden Gallery MMU and tour (catalogue)
2007 Slavery Blue coat Display Centre, Liverpool (catalogue)
2006 Applied Art in Architecture, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
2007 Inspired, Grace Barrand Design Centre
2007 Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, with Grace Barrand Design Centre (catalogue)
2006 Artefact, All Saints Building MMU
2006 MMU showcase, Manchester
2006 SOFA , Chicago with Blue Coat Display Centre(catalogue)
2006 Art In Action, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire
2006 Select, Grace Barrand Design Centre
2006 Art of the Stitch, RWA Gallery, Bristol, The Hub Sleaford, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
Birkenhead, tour (catalogue)
2005 Inspired to Stitch: 21 Textile Artists, Knitting And Stitching Show, London (book)
2005 International Art Embroidery Challenge, Pfaff, 1st Prize winner, juried exhibition, Knitting and Stitching Show, London, Châtelaudren, France, Jönköpings Läns Museum, Sweden (catalogue)
2005 Celebrating 30 Years, Crafts Council Show, V&A Museum, London (catalogue)
2005 Art Loan Collection, Link Gallery Exhibition, University of Winchester (catalogue)
2005 Collect, represented by Contemporary Applied Arts, V&A Museum (catalogue)
2004-5 Art Embroidery, Alexandra Palace, London, Musee du Textile_Parc de Wesserling France (catalogue)
2004 Collect, represented by FibreArts Gallery, V&A Museum (catalogue)
2003 Prism, Opus School of Textiles, Mall Galleries, London
Masterpieces, International exhibition, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (catalogue)
2002-5 Hand to Eye, consortium of Making it Work, The Winchester Gallery and Southern Arts
2002 62 Group Retrospective, The Knitting and Stitching Show, London, Dublin, Harrogate
2001 Goldsmiths’ Retrospective: The Knitting and Stitching Show, London, Dublin and Harrogate
2000 5th In Our Hands International competition, Kyoto, Japan (catalogue)
2000 The Unexpected, Fairfield City Museum and Stein Gallery, Sydney
1997&99 Art of the Stitch, Barbican Centre, London (tour) (catalogue)
1998 Knot as They Seam, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA (catalogue)
1998 Cloths of Gold, Contemporary Applied Arts 50th Anniversary Exhibition
1998 Stitch, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
1998 The Otter Art Gallery, University College Chichester
1997 UK Now, Melbourne, Australia
1996 William Morris Revisited, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, touring exhibition (catalogue) Crafts Council, London; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
1996 Hipòtesi Gallery, Barcelona
1996 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1995 Art in Action, Waterperry House, Oxford (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 Civic Centre
1994 Oxford Gallery, with Louise Baldwin
1994 Summer Show, Contemporary Applied Arts
1994 Visions of Craft, Highlights from the Crafts Council Collection
1993/91/89/87 Chelsea Crafts Fair, London
1993 Figurative Embroidered Textiles, City Gallery, Leicester
1993 Summer Show, Contemporary Applied Arts
1993 Money and Art, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1992 Out of the Frame, Crafts Council, London, touring exhibition; (catalogue) Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Plymouth City Museum; Wakefield Art Gallery; Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
1992 Contemporary Textile Gallery
1992 62 Group Exhibition, Hankyu Dept Stores, Osaka, Japan
1991 Can't Stop Me Now! Crafts Council, London, (tour)
1991 Favourite Things, Crafts Council Gallery, London
1990 Stitched Textiles – a Celebration, Embroiderers’ Guild Exhibition, Commonwealth Institute, London
1990 Cross Threads, Bradford Textiles Festival (tour)
1988 Tex-styles, Smiths Gallery, London
1987 Stitchery International, Pittsburgh, USA
1986 Stitched Textiles for Interiors, RIBA Gallery, London
1986 Contemporary Textile Gallery, London
Awards
2014 Outstanding Innovation in Research and Knowledge Exchange, Manchester Metropolitan University Staff Awards; Highly Commended
2013 Arrivals and Departures award, Farnham Maltings with Matt Smith, Venice Biennale study trip
2013 Craft Strategy SE with Matt Smith
2012 Major Ace funding for Making it project
2011 Artsway Associate Maker
2010 Design Award 2010 Public Art Award, Looking Forwards to the Past, City of Winchester Trust
2010 Design Award 2010 Public Art Award, Wisdom und Lor, City of Winchester Trust
2010 Arts Council of England Award, Telling Fortunes Platt Hall Manchester
2010 MIRIAD Award MMU Telling Fortunes
2009 Public Library Associations of Britain and Ireland, the best public library building in 2009. http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/public/awards; The Discovery Centre, Winchester
2009 Arts Council of England Major Development Award, Allegory Crafts Study Centre
2008 The Discovery Centre, Winchester, RIBA Award
2007 Arts Council of England South East Award
2010 MIRIAD Award Looking Forwards to the Past
2006 Textile Artist of the Year Award, Creative Exhibitions
2006 Arts Council Craft Development Award
2005 International Art Embroidery Challenge, Pfaff, 1st Prize winner
2002 Arts Council National Touring Programme award for solo touring exhibition (co-ordinated by Calderdale MBC: Museums and Arts)
2002 Arts Council of England South East, Major Development Award
1999 Kreinik Award
1999 Bernina Award
1997/92/91/88/87 Southern Arts Awards
1993 Cosmopolitan achievement awards (special commendation in Creative Arts)
1991 British Council Award
1988 Taittinger Prize
1988 Crafts Council Training Scheme, Professional artist training Linda Miller
1987 Crafts Council Setting Up Grant
1985 Clothworkers' Foundation 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 Gallery, (ceramic collaboration with Alex McErlain)
Museo Internationale delle Arti Applicate Oggi, Turin, Italy
Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Riga, 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 Art Gallery
St Mary’s College, Baltimore, USA
The Otter Art Gallery, University College Chichester
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
The Embroiderers’ Guild
The Prudential Collection
The Broadgate Club, London.
The Embroiderers’ Guild, NSW, Australia
York Castle Museum Gallery (ceramic collaboration with Alex McErlain)