General Exhibitions
COLLECT
Collect 25-27 February 2022 Somerset House, London https://candidastevens.com/exhibitions/73-collect-2022-the-leading-international-fair-for-contemporary-craft-and/overview/ Candida Stevens Four artists make work in response to the iconic Somerset House. Originally...
Alice Kettle Threadbound
At Candida Stevens Gallery https://candidastevens.com/exhibitions/66-alice-kettle-threadbound/overview/ For centuries humans have exchanged flowers as an expression of the entire emotional range and throughout art history they have been symbolic. People have long...
Contemporary Thinking Textile Seeing
http://www.irgigalerija.lt Kaunas Academy, University of Vilnius https://www.facebook.com/pg/VDAKF/videos/
Seascapes
The genre of seascapes has its own connection with landscapes, which became a popular tradition after the Renaissance. Rather than being part of a narrative, the landscape tradition was linked with empire-building. Alongside the growth in Maritime trade was a creative...
The House of Opposites
Artists Eleanor Mulhearn, Alison Duddle, and Alice Kettle, with writer Jenna C. Ashton, have collaborated to create the experimental travelling artwork, the House of Opposites. http://acdc-arts-deanclough.org.uk/#visual-arts The work draws inspiration from artist...
Collect, Somerset House
https://candidastevens.com/exhibitions/49/ Textiles offer a powerful medium through which to explore themes of cultural heritage, journeys and displacement. This exploration was central to Alice Kettle’s ambitious Thread Bearing Witness project shown at The...
British Textile Biennale
BRITISH TEXTILE BIENNIAL 2019 https://britishtextilebiennial.co.uk/programme/alice-kettle-thread-bearing-witness/ The first British Textile Biennial throws a spotlight on the nation’s creativity, innovation and expression in textiles against the backdrop of the...
Karachi Biennale19
Karachi Biennale19 26th October-12th November 2019 https://karachibiennale.org.pk/kb19/ Forest 2019 Embroidery on cloth 1317cm x 411cm Alice Kettle’s project Thread Bearing Witness was launched in 2017 www.threadbearingwitness.com. This major project...
Romantics
St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery New Street, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9BH 15 November 2019 – 19 January 2020 This exhibition presents work by a diverse group of artists who see themselves as continuing the great tradition of Romantic British art. The exhibition...
Horizontal Crossings Hanshan Art Museum
Strands of Place and Time
Strands of Place and Time Gawthorpe Hall https://www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk/post/182399353663/strands-of-place-and-time Janina Screen Asmaa, Nahome Bukasa, Susan Kamara, Alice Kettle The screen is made up of four separate...
Collect 2019
Saatchi Gallery, London. 28 February - 3 March 2019. Collect: International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design. Now in its 15th year, Collect's strength and reputation has grown considerably over the time as it is position very well within London's affluent and...
Circus is 21: A Celebration of Collaboration
https://www.circuslondon.com/performance/incollaboration/circus-is-21/
Present day
Present day - Supporting living artists 10 November - 22 December 2018 Candida Stevens gallery View works Living Treasures … works by artists working in the present day. As a gallery we strongly believe in supporting living artists, so are delighted to be showing work...
Alice Kettle Odyssey
https://www.southamptoncityartgallery.com/whats-on/alice-kettle-odyssey/ Alice Kettle, Odyssey, thread on canvas 6 Oct 2018 - 9 Mar 2019 This October sees the opening of a major retrospective of works by Sir Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain. Southampton City Art...
The Eleventh China embroidery Festival, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Embroidery is one of the most outstanding traditional handicraft. China has been discovered as the earliest country to use the silk thread, which according to records can be dated to Warring States period. Since most of the embroideries were made of silk, this...
Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness
https://threadbearingwitness.com Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles in the form of large-scale narrative embroideries, weaving and tapestries have been used to illustrate contemporary events...
More Threads
ALICE KETTLE, More Threads, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester, PO19 1BA 11 Nov to 2 Dec 2017 To complement the mini-retrospective 'Threads', Alice Kettle: More Threads will be held simultaneously at Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester. Here visitors can view...
Threads
The Gallery, Winchester Discovery Centre 28 Oct 2017 to 14 Jan 2018 Textile artist Alice Kettle returns to Winchester Discovery Centre with a solo exhibition marking the 10 year anniversary of her stunning public artwork ‘Looking Forwards to the Past, 2007’. This...
Ink and Blood
Ink and blood: stories of abolition explores the personal stories of previously enslaved people and the lasting legacies of, and contemporary responses to, abolition. The exhibition brings together a fascinating private collection, iconic documents from leading...