Literature

Renowned British textile artist Alice Kettle creates distinctive large-scale stitched

works acting as tactile landscapes where material becomes emotion and texture

becomes language.. Blending traditional embroidery techniques with innovative

digital processes, Kettle creates expressive artworks that blur the boundaries

between fine art and craft. Her richly textured pieces often explore themes of identity,

migration, and human connection, using thread and fabric as both medium and

metaphor.

With a background in fine art and a deep understanding of textile practices, Kettle

has redefined the role of embroidery in the modern art world. Her work has been

exhibited internationally and is held in major collections, including the Whitworth Art

Gallery and the Crafts Council.

Her work 'Knots' is inspired by the writer Donna Haraway. The work imagines a

different way to untie inherited, social and environmental tangles—not through

resolution, but through new knots, new kinships, and speculative stories. In a

tentacular world where everything touches everything else, the thread becomes a

method of connection and invention. The artwork stays with the trouble—offering not

answers, but hopeful ways to live in the tangle which connects the rest of life on

earth with our complex human relationships.