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#alicekettle#textileart#fiberart#inagerken#daramaillard#annahelwinggallery#boleegallery#threadbearingwitness#power#softpower
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#threadbearingwitness www.Threadbearingwitness.co.uk @whitworthart @alicekettle @mcrschart
This project continues. Launched in 2017-2018 @whitworthart, activities are ongoing.
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’s ambitious arts project, seeking to connect concerned communities and individuals across the UK, inviting them to get stitching, showing solidarity and raising funds for displaced people around the world.
Simultaneously, Alice is working on a local level to connect personally with individual women and children refugees and asylum seekers, asking them to work with her to contribute to and inform new monumental stitched artworks. These artworks are inspired by the strength, resilience, and hospitality of refugees and asylum seekers whom she and her family have worked with.
The Digital Women’s Archive North CIC (DWAN) links to the project the Travelling Heritage Bureau which will address both the need to ensure the participation of women artists in contributing to arts archives, and the additional complexities of displacement for undertaking arts archive development.
Textiles offers a powerful medium through which to explore themes of cultural heritage, journeys and displacement. Embroidery is a domestic practice representing home-making, it is steeped in the history of trade routes with its global connections to production and pattern. The exhibition will use thread to examine the interconnected social world we live in.
The project is launched with the ten-year anniversary Threads exhibition at Winchester Discovery Centre, which celebrates Alice’s signature public art work, Looking Forwards to the Past, on 28th October 2017. The fully realised exhibition will take place at the Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester in September 2018.
Alice Kettle will donate profits from artwork sales to charities supporting displaced people.
Thread Bearing Witness includes a number of strands – follow the links to learn more about different aspects of the project and how you can get involved.
20 Feb 2019
Review of Soft Power: Lives Told through textile art @rwabristol in @thebristolmag https://thebristolmag.co.uk/review-soft-power-at-rwa/
‘As a powerful portrayal of culture, individuality and lived experience it is deeply personal and intensely emotive. As an exhibition of mesmerising, immersive beauty, it hits every mark.’
@boleeandworkman @mcrschart @the_artists_agency @
#alicekettle #textileart #fiberart #power #softpower #textiles #contemporarywomensart
23 May 2025
Have a first glance at our Art Cologne presentation opening tomorrow with the Preview Day.
The gallery will feature a cross-generational presentation of three artists—Ina Gerken, Alice Kettle, and Dara Maillard—whose work ebb and flow between tenderness and vehemence, exploring the body, nature, and perception.
Ina Gerken
Alice Kettle
Dara Maillard
Preview: 5 November, 2026
Public Days: 6-8 November, 2026
#inagerken #alicekettle #daramaillard #annahelwinggallery
04 Nov 2026
Opening Thursday, November 5!
Art Cologne
You will find us in Hall 11.2 | booth N-23
We are exited to present works by
Ina Gerken
Alice Kettle
Dara Maillard
Work details:
Alice Kettle
Elizabeth, 2021
Various thread on printed linen mix
170x129cm
@artcolognefair #inagerken #Alicekettle #daramaillard #annahelwinggallery #annahelwing
02 Nov 2026
I’m one of 61 contemporary artists who have made original work in response to a lyric from @paulmccartney and Wings’ ‘Band on the Run’, chosen by Paul himself: “Well, the rain exploded with a mighty crash as we fell into the sun.”
My pieces ‘Sunburst’ and ‘Sunburst ll’ are among 80 artworks in Sound & Vision, an online auction presented by @warchilduk and curated by @aoapprojects. All proceeds support War Child’s life-changing work with children affected by conflict.
📅 Online auction with @indy.auction 27 October - 12 November
🖼️ View the artworks in person at @iconicimagesgallery 5 - 7 November
📸 Artwork Photography by @ollieharrop
#SoundAndVision #WarChild #BandOnTheRun
27 Oct 2026
Sound & Vision Artist Highlight - Alice Kettle
Lot 62. Sun Burst, 2026
Thread on Linen Mix
15 × 21 cm
Lot 63. Sun Burst, II 2026
Thread on Linen Mix
15 × 21 cm
@alicekettle is a contemporary textile/fibre artist based in the UK, who has established an internationally regarded and unique area of practice.
Her stitched works, many the size of huge figurative tapestries, explore the textures and effects made possible through the harnessing of a mechanical process to intuitive, conceptual and creative ends.
Alice is Emeritus Professor at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work is represented in various public collections, including FAMM Museum, Mougins; Crafts Council, London; the Whitworth, Manchester; Museo Internazionale delle Arti Applicate Oggi, Turin, Italy; and the Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Riga, Latvia.
Her major solo exhibition Thread Bearing Witness was held at the Whitworth (2018–2019). She co-curated Soft Power – Lives Told Through Textile Art at the RWA (2025) and Threads – Breathing Life into Materials at Arnolfini, Bristol (2023), and received the Brookfield Properties/Crafts Council Award (2023).
@warchilduk presents Sound & Vision, curated by @aoapprojects.
Each year, Sound & Vision invites leading contemporary artists to create original works inspired by a single iconic song lyric, this year from @PaulMcCartney and Wings track ‘Band on the Run'. The artworks are then auctioned to raise vital funds for War Child's work protecting, educating and standing up for the rights of children affected by conflict.
Chosen by Paul himself, the line this year is,
“Well, the rain exploded with a mighty crash
as we fell into the sun”
Inspired by these words, 61 of today's most exciting contemporary artists have created 80 original artworks, each offering a unique interpretation of the lyric.
🔗 Register to bid via the link in our bio
📅 Online auction with @indy.auction 27 October - 12 November
🖼️ View the artworks in person at @iconicimagesgallery 5 - 7 November
📸 Artwork Photography by @ollieharrop
10 Oct 2026
Alice Kettle @alicekettle
I am taking over Instagram paintworks for a few days, so I will tell you about myself and then follow with posts focusing on artists who use textile however loosely to inform their practice. They are all artists whom I know or have worked with and many are UK based. I hope to introduce you to some amazing work.
So I shall start with myself.
My work explores how thread can carry stories. Through stitching, textiles and large-scale installation, I bring together personal experience, social histories and shared narratives. The figures often emerge from layers of thread and cloth, connecting the intimate act of making with wider questions of identity, place, migration, memory and belonging.
For me stitching is both a material practice and a way of thinking — a line that connects us to one another.
I am Professor Emeritus @mcrschart
#AliceKettle #TextileArt #FibreArt #FiberArt #ContemporaryTextiles
Images:
Portrait. Photo: Jesse Wild
Thread Bearing Witness. Photo: David Oates
Balancing Act. Photo: Dave Watts
05 Oct 2026
Looking forward to my Saturday tour @rwabristol with @jemma_appleby at the 173rd Open on Saturday 3rd October
https://www.rwa.org.uk/collections/events/products/first-saturday-tour-alice-kettle-rwa-and-jemma-appleby-rwa
28 Sep 2026
Acquisition news:
We are delighted to announce that Balancing Act by Alice Kettle has been acquired by Linklaters for its London headquarters.
Originally presented as the centrepiece of Alice Kettle’s solo exhibition Balancing Act at Bo Lee Gallery, the work now enters the collection of one of the world’s leading international law firms, where it will be permanently installed within its new London offices.
Balancing Act embodies many of the themes that have long defined Alice’s practice — resilience, care, labour and the intricate threads that connect our personal and collective lives. We are thrilled to see this remarkable work find a permanent home where it will be encountered by thousands of people each year.
Congratulations, Alice. It has been a privilege to share this exhibition and to see this extraordinary work begin its next chapter.
#alicekettle #linklaterscollection #corporateartcollection #boleegallery
16 Sep 2026
It is great to be able to support institutions in building their collections at a time when funding from other sources is being cut, something Hallett Independent is proud to help make possible.
We are delighted to have supported the acquisition of “Catching the Weeping Moon” by @alicekettle (b. 1961) into the permanent collection of the @holburnemuseumbath, Bath.
As one of the South West’s leading museums, the Holburne provides an exceptional home for works of outstanding artistic and cultural significance. We are proud to have played a part in securing a permanent public home for this remarkable work, where it can be enjoyed and appreciated by visitors for generations to come.
@alicekettle continues to redefine the possibilities of textile as a contemporary art form, combining extraordinary technical skill with powerful storytelling.
Swipe to the last slide to view “Catching the Weeping Moon”.
Image Credits
1. Alice Kettle with Little Bird and Sunflowers. Photograph by Vicky Polak. © Vicky Polak. Courtesy of Bo Lee Gallery.
2. Alice Kettle
Elizabeth, 2022
Thread on linen
174 × 129 cm
© The Artist. Courtesy of @boleegallery.
3. Alice Kettle (b. 1961)
KingMakers, 2025
Thread on linen
170 × 135 cm
© The Artist. Courtesy of @candida_stevens.
4. Alice Kettle (b. 1961)
Catching the Weeping Moon, 2026
Various threads on printed linen mix and acrylic paint
225 × 116 cm
© The Artist.
04 Sep 2026
We are delighted to share that ‘Catching the Weeping Moon’ by Alice Kettle has found its permanent home in the Holburne Museum, Bath.
One of the South West’s most significant museums, the Holburne has built an outstanding collection spanning centuries of art and craft. We are thrilled that ‘Catching the Weeping Moon’ will now become part of this public collection, where it can be experienced by visitors for generations to come.
It has been a privilege to facilitate the placement of this extraordinary work. Alice Kettle’s practice continues to redefine the possibilities of textile as a contemporary art form, weaving together exceptional technical skill with powerful narratives and emotional resonance.
Our sincere thanks go to the Holburne Museum, The Hitchin Family and Hallett Independent for recognising the significance of Alice’s work and making this acquisition possible. Many congratulations Alice.
Alice Kettle
Catching the Weeping Moon, 2026
Various threads on printed
linen mix and acrylic paint
225 x 116 cm
#AliceKettle #HolburneMuseum #Boleegallery #TextileArt MuseumCollection
04 Aug 2026
Beekeepers
With my grandson we watch the underground bees emerging. The garden is planted for wild bees to visit
#alicekettle #beekeeping #contemporaryart #textileart #fiberart
27 Jul 2026
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