Curatorial

https://www.textileandplace.co.uk The Textile and Place conference explores the politics of textiles. Hosted by Manchester School of Art, the conference builds upon the debates from the first Textile and Place conference which took place in 2018 and postponed from...

This collaborative project is between makers, artists, designers and writers at Manchester School of Art and Manchester Writing School, in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. The Portico Library’s collection of books provides...

A one-day exhibition at Flowers Gallery, London marks the culmination of a project where textiles have been created in response to the works of Michael Kidner. Kidner was at the forefront of Optical Art in the 1960s, with works using repeated systematic structures and...

Significant Stitch This exhibition shows contemporary works by staff and students at Manchester School of Art www.art.mmu.ac.uk made in response to the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection. Gawthorpe’s Textile Collection www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk includes 30,000 pieces,...

Place at the Table is a project challenging categorizations of craft with Kettle as curator and artist. The project presented craft as social, functional, relational, performative and for its material character.  The project had multiple strands was curated by myself,...

New Generation — Design for Living Design Manchester 2016 A two-day con­fer­ence with pres­en­ta­tions and work­shops, co-curated with Alice Ket­tle and Age-Friendly Man­ches­ter. The New Gen­er­a­tion — De­sign for Liv­ing event looked at the chal­lenges and...

Pairings Conversations and Collaborations acknowledges both uniqueness and togetherness. The intention is to create dialogue between makers and material in order to learn and understand an alternative perspective and reflect back on one’s own. This exhibition brings...

Making It: A celebration of craft and community in Winchester Winchester Discovery centre, Winchester 12-14 October 2012 A multi stranded celebration of making and creativity which takes place in Winchester and reveals how craft and the process of making is central to...

Conversations & Collaborations’ April 28 –May 27 2012 Museum in the Park
GL5 4AF   Images of new collaborative work with Jane Webb and David Gates   Alice Kettle November 2011 Pairings II Conversations and Collaborations is a simple thought; to celebrate...