Alice kettle textiles

I first discovered the beautiful work of Alice Kettle in 1997, in an exhibition organised by Art Angels in the Neo-Natal department at King's College Hospital, Camberwell. At the time I had never seen anybody use fibre/textiles based crafts to create a body of work with fine art sensibilities like this before. She uses the humble sewing machine to actually paint and draw pictures of the human body. She was originally a fine art painter who then made the successful transition to thread and…

Textile artist Alice Kettle has been awarded the fourth annual Brookfield Properties Craft Award, a prestigious prize granted in collaboration with the Crafts Council at Collect art fair. With...

This tapestry is in Winchester library. A GIANT embroidered tapestry created for the new-look Winchester library. The £50,000 artwork was commissioned by Hampshire County Council to hang in the glass-fronted foyer of the revamped Winchester Discovery Centre in Jewry Street. The 16-metre wide, three-metre tall wall hanging, is believed to be the biggest public artwork in machine embroidery ever made in Europe. Hyde textile artist Alice Kettle, who lives in Arthur Road, has spent the last…

The London Art Fair takes place at The Business Design Centre in Islington. Where 130 Galleries from across the world exhibit their finest Contemporary Art.

Alice Kettle Flower Dress, 2021 Signed recto Thread on linen Stretched around a wooden frame Some of the flowers in the works are included as tributes and thanks in recognition of particular people and the community of stitch. Included in these are flowers from RLCC, Behbud, Indus Resource Centre and...

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MORE THREADS, and exhibition of work by Alice Kettle at Candida Stevens Gallery 11 NOVEMBER - 2 DECEMBER 2017