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To Boldly Sew: Textile Art by Alice Kettle
Presented by Brookfield Properties and The Crafts Council at 99 Bishopsgate and 30 Fenchurch St, London, 5 July - 29 September 2023

To Boldly Sew: Textile Art by Alice Kettle: Presented by Brookfield Properties and The Crafts Council at 99 Bishopsgate and 30 Fenchurch St, London

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Alice Kettle The house that Jack built, 2023 Thread on linen 180 x 128 cm
Alice Kettle
The house that Jack built, 2023
Thread on linen
180 x 128 cm
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WINNER OF 2023 BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES CRAFT AWARD

Open to the public

5th July-29th September 7am-7pm

Venues: 99 Bishopsgate

London, EC2M 3XD

30 Fenchurch St.

London, EC3M 3 BD

 

Several significant and large works made over nearly twenty years feature in what is a large scale solo presentation of the artists work over two London venues. The works range in date from 2006 (The Schiffli Series) to 2023. Flightlines is a new work made for Hangzhou Textile Biennial and not previously shown in the UK. Several new works are also included. At the bottom of this page is a list of which works can be found in which venue. 

 

Each year The Brookfield Properties Craft Award honours a maker who has pushed the boundaries and achieved excellence in the contemporary craft sphere.

Each year, the winning artist is selected from Crafts Council’s Collect, the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design. The winning artist is the subject of a solo exhibition at Brookfield Properties’ central London landmark venues and has artworks acquired for and accessioned into the Crafts Council Collection.

 

This year’s winner sees Alice Kettle, represented by Candida Stevens Gallery, as the recipient of the 2023 Brookfield Properties Craft Award from over 400 makers. The works acquired for the Crafts Council Collection are Three Girls, 2022; Little Bird, 2022; and The Swimmers, 2023 which can be seen in the 99 Bishopsgate exhibition.

 

Kettle's work explores notions of memory, identity, and community, and her pieces often feature intricate, figurative compositions that capture the essence of the human experience, drawing on political events from the personal to the wider, shared experience. This exhibition brings together a selection of Kettle's significant works, showcasing the breadth of her practice and technical mastery. A recurrent motif is the use of the figure to present personal and universal themes, featuring real and fictional characters that are navigating a range of situations and events.

 

A subject that is a deep motivation in much of Alice’s work is human dignity, particularly present in her work Sea, on display at 99 Bishopsgate. The works displayed in 99 Bishopsgate present a collection of Kettle's motifs – the three figures observing their surroundings, the vastness and power of the sea and figurative portraits all questioning our relationships with our world and surroundings. The display in 30 Fenchurch Street brings together three bodies of work, each developed in a series and through collaborative projects: Schiffli Series (2006) created with the 86 needle schiffli embroidery machine at Manchester School of Art for the exhibition Mechanical Drawing – The Schiffli Project, in which Alice challenged the uniformity of repeat by changing the colour and thickness of the threads; the monumental Flight Lines created for 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, China, 2022 and the recent House That Jack Built series with the artist's narrative continuing across both works.

 

 

Pieces Acquired for the Crafts Council Collection from Candida Stevens Gallery

Little Bird (2022)

Three Girls (2022)

The Swimmers (2023)

 

Pieces at 99 Bishopsgate;

The Dog Loukanikos and the Cat's Cradle - 237 x 130cm

Flower Dress - 237 x 130cm

Queen Elizabeth  - 174 x 129cm

Daisy - 132 x 103cm

Sunflowers - 260 x 130cm

Threadbearing Witness, Sea - 300 x 800 cm 

 

Pieces at 30 Fenchurch;

Flightlines, 289 cm x 836 cm

The House That Jack and his Friends Built,  180 x 128cm

The House That Jack Built, 180 x 128cm

Schiffli Series, Nepenthe, 240 x 190cm

Schiffli Series, Ormo, 249 x 200cm

Schiffli Series, Ophrey, 245 x 200cm 

 

 

 

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