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Soft Power: Lives told through textile art
GROUP EXHIBITION CO-CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
Royal West of England Academy 17 May - 10 August 2025Soft Power:Lives told through Textile Art' was an international exhibition curated by textile art pioneer Professor Alice Kettle, with curator of international textiles Professor Lesley Millar MBE. The exhibition featured... -
Threads – Breathing Stories Into Materials
GROUP EXHIBITION CO-CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
ARNOLFINI 8 July - 1 October 2023Threads was a major exhibition at Arnolfini, co-curated by Alice Kettle, featuring 21 contemporary international artists and makers who use textiles as their chosen medium. Celebrating material and making, the... -
Textile & Place Conference
Manchester School of Art 2 March 2018 - 3 May 2023The Textile and Place Conference was first held in 2018, curated by Alice Kettle and hosted by Manchester School of Art, in collaboration with The Whitworth Gallery. It drew on... -
Fabric: Touch and Identity
GROUP EXHIBITION CO-CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
Compton Verney Gallery 14 March - 31 December 2020Playful and provocative, this exhibition explored how the qualities of cloth conceal, reveal, and seduce through the prisms of art, design, film, and dance. The drape, fold, touch, and feel... -
Significance
GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
Gawthorpe Hall and Touring 6 June 2016 - 7 September 2017Alice Kettle curated this touring exhibition of contemporary works by staff and students at Manchester School of Art, made in response to the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection. The collection includes 30,000... -
Made In Translation
GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
The Portico Library 27 April - 26 June 2017What is it to read? What is it to write? What is a living collection? Curated by Alice Kettle, Made in Translation was a collaborative project between craft practitioners and... -
Painting into Textile: Inspired by Michael Kidner
GROUP EXHIBITION Curated by Alice Kettle
Flowers Gallery 5 - 6 July 2016Alice Kettle curated this one-day exhibition at Flowers Gallery, which showcased work by textile students and staff from Manchester School of Art, created in response to the works of renowned... -
Place At the Table
GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
Pallant House Gallery 25 November 2014 - 18 January 2015Place at the Table was developed by Alice Kettle, with Victoria Brown for Pallant House Gallery. The project challenged categorisations of craft, with Kettle as curator and artist. Place at... -
Pairings
GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
Contemporary Applied Arts 1 - 30 May 2013The Pairings exhibition at CAA was the culmination of a three year, international cross-institutional and cross material project Pairings, which was conceived and initiated by Alice Kettle at the Manchester... -
Pairings II: Conversations and Collaborations
GROUP EXHIBITION CO-CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
Stroud International Textile Festival 28 April - 27 May 2012Pairings II: Conversations and Collaborations was the sole exhibition of the Stroud International Textile Festival in 2012, and marked a continuation of the Pairings project initiated by Alice Kettle and... -
Pairings
GROUP EXHIBITION CO-CURATED BY ALICE KETTLE
Special Collections Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University 1 October - 30 November 2010The Pairings project was initiated by Alice Kettle and Alex McErlain at Manchester School of Art with the aim of bringing together makers from different craft specialisms. Collaborative creative practice... -
Making It: A celebration of craft and community in Winchester
Curated by Alice Kettle
Winchester Discovery Centre 12 - 14 October 2012Making It was a festival at the Winchester Discovery Centre curated by Alice Kettle, exploring how craft and the process of making is central to our everyday lives. The festival...
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