Alice Kettle

Alice Kettle is an internationally renowned artist and leader in the field of textile arts. Her unique practice results in figurative stitched works from the small to the monumental. She makes full use of the textures and effects made possible through her harnessing of a mechanical process; created both through planning and intuition where stories collide with autobiographical and contemporary events, folklore and mythology.

“When stitching you are always doing two things at the same time. You are drawing a descriptive, linear, illustrative line, but it is also a three-dimensional thread in tension and joins things together. The surface changes constantly under different lights. It is full of surprises all the time.” - Alice Kettle

Kettle's work is included in many international public collections including the Crafts Council, the Whitworth Manchester, Liverpool International Slavery Museum, Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Riga, Latvia, Ararat Art Gallery Australia, the Belger Collection, Kansas City USA. She is professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and has co-authored and edited various publications including Machine Stitch Perspectives, Hand Stitch Perspectives, Collaboration through Craft, and The Erotic Cloth, Reading the Thread: Cloth and Communication with Bloomsbury.