Projects
Cushion project
Christopher Farr Cloth has collaborated with Alice Kettle, a contemporary textile artist and Professor of Textiles at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University on a special cushion project with craft groups of refugees. With Alice’s guidance and...
Sewing Together
Online workshops and sewing book for refugees workshops with Kelly Quinzell Booklet designed by Tobi Meuwissen
STITCH12STITCHES lockdown project
Already receiving amazing stitching! Here is the beginning of the assembled contributions. Keep them coming! Such beautiful stitching and powerful messages ...
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, Suzhou, China
Contemporary Embroidery Art International Exchange Project. Scholars and artists, are invited to think, research and create in this environment, making connections through residency projects across national borders. The residency examines cultural differences, through...
Room for Food: a reflection on culinary spaces
This event is a symposium in relation to the launch of the final edition of the journal FEAST, entitled ‘Spaces for Eating’. For the launch of the final journal, Angelica Michelis cooks a feast to re-open (up) the pop-up restaurant The Whalley Range Dining Room...
Thread Bearing Witness
Thread Bearing Witness Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness Migration is the defining issue of our time. How each individual, group, industry and family choose to respond to this subject will shape the foundations of our future communities. Artist Alice Kettle is...
Making Ground
Alice Kettle joined Annemarie O’Sullivan and ceramic artist Elaine Bolt for a making day with Helen Carnac, on their Making Ground project. This is an Arts Council funded collaborative interdisciplinary project exploring site-specific making at a disused brickworks in...
The Boat Project
www.theboatproject.com http://margatehoststheboat.org/ http://www.turnercontemporary.org/public-programme/margate-hosts-the-boat Sail and accompanying flags made for Margate Hosts the Boat project. The images were gifted by local schools and community groups which I...
Material Responses
COTTON EXCHANGE A Material Response Exhibitions (Ahmedabad – Manchester) Old Rajnagar Mill, near Idgah, Premdarwaja, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 2013 13 artists from Gujarat, Lancashire, Ahmedabad and Manchester have been exchanging ideas and travelling to each other’s...
Makeshift
Make:Shift Innovation Conference - Crafts Council www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/makeshift/ Innovation through Collaboration with Kirsteen Aubrey and Lesley Raven
Reverie and Enchantment
A residency at Australia National University, Canberra Sept/Oct 2015 with Dr Amanda Ravetz https://reverieenchantment.wordpress.com/ Reverie and Enchantment A website and blog about Alice Kettle‘s and Amanda Ravetz‘s research residency at ANU art school, September to...
India Residency
01/07/11 – 14/07/11 Arts Reverie In Ahmedebad India with Pushpa Kumari. As part A Fine Line project Pushpa Kumari and Alice Kettle spent time together at Arts Reverie Ahmedebad in 2011. They spent 10 days drawing together. Without a common language and with the...