General Exhibitions
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...
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
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 to become enduring material...
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...
Good Nature
GOOD NATURE A celebration of the natural world 16 September – 28 October 2017 31 Contemporary British Artists make one piece of work in response to GOOD NATURE Candida Stevens Gallery Once a year the Gallery commissions a major exhibition of new work based on a...
Rijswijk Textile Biennial
The fifth Rijswijk Textile Biennial will take place from 16 May to 24 September 2017. Twenty-four international artists will be showing their fibre art. 'Well-worn' textile techniques like weaving, knitting and embroidery, combined with photography and digital...
Icon
Candida Stevens Fine Art ICON WORTHY OF OUR 21ST CENTURY ATTENTION? 10 SEPTEMBER - 22 OCTOBER 2016 THOMAS ALLEN – STEPHEN CHAMBERS RA – EILEEN COOPER RA – ŠÁRKA DARTON - TRACEY EMIN RA – NICOLE FARHI – REBECCA FONTAINE WOLF – LAURA FORD – NICOLA GREEN – KRISTINA...
The Scalloped Edge
This exhibition is a collection of works which link the embroidery traditions of Madeira to my own contemporary stitch practice. The project uses stitch as a common cultural language to make connections through motif, process and metaphor. The sharing and exchange of...
VAST : 15 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
‘Loukanikos and the Cat’s Cradle’ with glass additions from Kirsteen Aubrey, Amanda Ravetz (film and catalogue essay) shown at VAS:T 2015 show at Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh http://www.visualartsscotland.org and shown at Collect, the Saatchi Gallery...
Golden Dawn
Shown by Contemporary Applied Arts at Collect, Saatchi Gallery 2014 Craft Now, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead purchased for Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead “Embroidery has rarely been so vivid” 180cm H x 360cm W 2014 Thread and print on canvas Ariadne, daughter...