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#threadbearingwitnesswww.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 islaunchedwith 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.

Review of Soft Power: Lives Told through textile art @rwabristol in @thebristolmaghttps://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

New work for @annahelwinggallery in June #alicekettle #annahelwinggallery #boleegallery #textileart #fibreart

Balancing Act, a solo exhibition by Alice Kettle closes today. Thank you to the visitors, collectors and guests to our many events and congratulations to @alicekettle for a spectacular show.

Balancing Act closes today at 5pm.

Please note: the gallery will be closed from 15 - 24 April while we prepare for our next exhibition, Boo Saville: Gentle, opening to the public on Saturday 2 May.

Photo 2: @ifoperanow event
Photo 3: Screen Saver series performed by Iris Chan @irisypchan and Elisa Vassena @vasche_visive, choreographed by Neve Harrington @j.neve.harrington
Photo 4: credit @joelowphoto

#finalday #balancingact #alicekettle #bayeauxtapestry

Balancing Act, a solo exhibition by Alice Kettle closes today. Thank you to the visitors, collectors and guests to our many events and congratulations to @alicekettle for a spectacular show.

Balancing Act closes today at 5pm.

Please note: the gallery will be closed from 15 - 24 April while we prepare for our next exhibition, Boo Saville: Gentle, opening to the public on Saturday 2 May.

Photo 2: @ifoperanow event
Photo 3: Screen Saver series performed by Iris Chan @irisypchan and Elisa Vassena @vasche_visive, choreographed by Neve Harrington @j.neve.harrington
Photo 4: credit @joelowphoto

#finalday #balancingact #alicekettle #bayeauxtapestry

Balancing Act, a solo exhibition by Alice Kettle closes today. Thank you to the visitors, collectors and guests to our many events and congratulations to @alicekettle for a spectacular show.

Balancing Act closes today at 5pm.

Please note: the gallery will be closed from 15 - 24 April while we prepare for our next exhibition, Boo Saville: Gentle, opening to the public on Saturday 2 May.

Photo 2: @ifoperanow event
Photo 3: Screen Saver series performed by Iris Chan @irisypchan and Elisa Vassena @vasche_visive, choreographed by Neve Harrington @j.neve.harrington
Photo 4: credit @joelowphoto

#finalday #balancingact #alicekettle #bayeauxtapestry

Balancing Act, a solo exhibition by Alice Kettle closes today. Thank you to the visitors, collectors and guests to our many events and congratulations to @alicekettle for a spectacular show.

Balancing Act closes today at 5pm.

Please note: the gallery will be closed from 15 - 24 April while we prepare for our next exhibition, Boo Saville: Gentle, opening to the public on Saturday 2 May.

Photo 2: @ifoperanow event
Photo 3: Screen Saver series performed by Iris Chan @irisypchan and Elisa Vassena @vasche_visive, choreographed by Neve Harrington @j.neve.harrington
Photo 4: credit @joelowphoto

#finalday #balancingact #alicekettle #bayeauxtapestry

Balancing Act, a solo exhibition by Alice Kettle closes today. Thank you to the visitors, collectors and guests to our many events and congratulations to @alicekettle for a spectacular show.

Balancing Act closes today at 5pm.

Please note: the gallery will be closed from 15 - 24 April while we prepare for our next exhibition, Boo Saville: Gentle, opening to the public on Saturday 2 May.

Photo 2: @ifoperanow event
Photo 3: Screen Saver series performed by Iris Chan @irisypchan and Elisa Vassena @vasche_visive, choreographed by Neve Harrington @j.neve.harrington
Photo 4: credit @joelowphoto

#finalday #balancingact #alicekettle #bayeauxtapestry

It is the final week of Balancing Act, a solo exhibition by textile artist Alice Kettle. Visit the gallery 10am - 5pm before we close on Saturday.

Photos: Dave Watts

Look This Way, 2026
Various threads on printed linen mix
65.5 x 47.5 cm

Spinning plates, do not drop them, 2026
Various threads on printed linen mix
225 x 116 cm

Moon, 2026
Net, various threads, string, paint, paper and wire
100 x 110 x 110cm

#balancingact #boleegallery #textileartist #finalweek

It is the final week of Balancing Act, a solo exhibition by textile artist Alice Kettle. Visit the gallery 10am - 5pm before we close on Saturday.

Photos: Dave Watts

Look This Way, 2026
Various threads on printed linen mix
65.5 x 47.5 cm

Spinning plates, do not drop them, 2026
Various threads on printed linen mix
225 x 116 cm

Moon, 2026
Net, various threads, string, paint, paper and wire
100 x 110 x 110cm

#balancingact #boleegallery #textileartist #finalweek

It is the final week of Balancing Act, a solo exhibition by textile artist Alice Kettle. Visit the gallery 10am - 5pm before we close on Saturday.

Photos: Dave Watts

Look This Way, 2026
Various threads on printed linen mix
65.5 x 47.5 cm

Spinning plates, do not drop them, 2026
Various threads on printed linen mix
225 x 116 cm

Moon, 2026
Net, various threads, string, paint, paper and wire
100 x 110 x 110cm

#balancingact #boleegallery #textileartist #finalweek

✨ Introducing @wellsartcontemporary Installations selector @alicekettle✨

Alice Kettle is an internationally renowned artist and leader in the field of textile arts

Represented by @boleegallery her unique practice results in figurative stitched works from the small to the monumental, and is held in many major public & private collections across the globe.

Kettle is Emeritus Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed as a Royal West of England Academician in 2025 in recognition of her contributions to art and craft.

Do you want to get your work seen by the talented @alicekettle?

Comment ‘INSTALL’ and we’ll send you the link to apply for WAC 2026!

Photo credits:
(1) Jesse Wild
(2-3) David Watts @boleegallery

✨ Introducing @wellsartcontemporary Installations selector @alicekettle✨

Alice Kettle is an internationally renowned artist and leader in the field of textile arts

Represented by @boleegallery her unique practice results in figurative stitched works from the small to the monumental, and is held in many major public & private collections across the globe.

Kettle is Emeritus Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed as a Royal West of England Academician in 2025 in recognition of her contributions to art and craft.

Do you want to get your work seen by the talented @alicekettle?

Comment ‘INSTALL’ and we’ll send you the link to apply for WAC 2026!

Photo credits:
(1) Jesse Wild
(2-3) David Watts @boleegallery

✨ Introducing @wellsartcontemporary Installations selector @alicekettle✨

Alice Kettle is an internationally renowned artist and leader in the field of textile arts

Represented by @boleegallery her unique practice results in figurative stitched works from the small to the monumental, and is held in many major public & private collections across the globe.

Kettle is Emeritus Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed as a Royal West of England Academician in 2025 in recognition of her contributions to art and craft.

Do you want to get your work seen by the talented @alicekettle?

Comment ‘INSTALL’ and we’ll send you the link to apply for WAC 2026!

Photo credits:
(1) Jesse Wild
(2-3) David Watts @boleegallery

✨ Introducing @wellsartcontemporary Installations selector @alicekettle✨

Alice Kettle is an internationally renowned artist and leader in the field of textile arts

Represented by @boleegallery her unique practice results in figurative stitched works from the small to the monumental, and is held in many major public & private collections across the globe.

Kettle is Emeritus Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed as a Royal West of England Academician in 2025 in recognition of her contributions to art and craft.

Do you want to get your work seen by the talented @alicekettle?

Comment ‘INSTALL’ and we’ll send you the link to apply for WAC 2026!

Photo credits:
(1) Jesse Wild
(2-3) David Watts @boleegallery

✨ Introducing @wellsartcontemporary Installations selector @alicekettle✨

Alice Kettle is an internationally renowned artist and leader in the field of textile arts

Represented by @boleegallery her unique practice results in figurative stitched works from the small to the monumental, and is held in many major public & private collections across the globe.

Kettle is Emeritus Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed as a Royal West of England Academician in 2025 in recognition of her contributions to art and craft.

Do you want to get your work seen by the talented @alicekettle?

Comment ‘INSTALL’ and we’ll send you the link to apply for WAC 2026!

Photo credits:
(1) Jesse Wild
(2-3) David Watts @boleegallery

✨ Introducing @wellsartcontemporary Installations selector @alicekettle✨

Alice Kettle is an internationally renowned artist and leader in the field of textile arts

Represented by @boleegallery her unique practice results in figurative stitched works from the small to the monumental, and is held in many major public & private collections across the globe.

Kettle is Emeritus Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed as a Royal West of England Academician in 2025 in recognition of her contributions to art and craft.

Do you want to get your work seen by the talented @alicekettle?

Comment ‘INSTALL’ and we’ll send you the link to apply for WAC 2026!

Photo credits:
(1) Jesse Wild
(2-3) David Watts @boleegallery

A Stitch in Time @paulsmithdesign
Curated by @ktheller
@boleegallery
Photos@circehamilton and @studio_adamson

With @laetitziacampbell and @edcrossfineart

#alicekettle
#ktheller #textileart #fiberart #contemporaryart

A Stitch in Time @paulsmithdesign
Curated by @ktheller
@boleegallery
Photos@circehamilton and @studio_adamson

With @laetitziacampbell and @edcrossfineart

#alicekettle
#ktheller #textileart #fiberart #contemporaryart

A Stitch in Time @paulsmithdesign
Curated by @ktheller
@boleegallery
Photos@circehamilton and @studio_adamson

With @laetitziacampbell and @edcrossfineart

#alicekettle
#ktheller #textileart #fiberart #contemporaryart

A Stitch in Time @paulsmithdesign
Curated by @ktheller
@boleegallery
Photos@circehamilton and @studio_adamson

With @laetitziacampbell and @edcrossfineart

#alicekettle
#ktheller #textileart #fiberart #contemporaryart

UK-based Alice Kettle's large-scale embroidered works push stitching into contemporary fine art. https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/luxury/article/tapestries-where-to-buy-times-luxury-flt9t8j2l

Opening today @paulsmithdesign

‘Balancing Act’, a solo exhibition by textile based artist Alice Kettle, continues until 11 April. Visit us Wednesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm.

Juggler
Various threads on printed linen mix and acrylic paint
196 x 117 cm
77 1/8 x 46 in

Photo: Dave Watts

#alicekettle #juggler #boleegallery #balancingact

‘Balancing Act’, a solo exhibition by textile based artist Alice Kettle, continues until 11 April. Visit us Wednesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm.

Juggler
Various threads on printed linen mix and acrylic paint
196 x 117 cm
77 1/8 x 46 in

Photo: Dave Watts

#alicekettle #juggler #boleegallery #balancingact

Take a look at how celebrated embroidery fine artist @alicekettle uses her sewing machine, as she describes a little of her making process.

Her latest exhibition, Balancing Act, is at @boleegallery in Bruton, Somerset, until 11 April.

Courtesy of Bo Lee Gallery. Film by Sam Smith.

Read more about Alice and the exhibition in the latest issue of Embroidery just £6.99 plus postage. Head to our bio to purchase.

Thank you to everyone that joined us today for ‘Spinning Plates’ on International Women’s Day.Thank you also to Alice Kettle for such an inspiring talk and to Elisa @vasche_visive and Iris @irisypchan for their wonderful performance of ‘Screensaver Series’ choreographed by @j.neve.harrington.

#internationalwomensday #spinningplates #alicekettle #boleegallery #screensaversseries

Thank you to everyone that joined us today for ‘Spinning Plates’ on International Women’s Day.Thank you also to Alice Kettle for such an inspiring talk and to Elisa @vasche_visive and Iris @irisypchan for their wonderful performance of ‘Screensaver Series’ choreographed by @j.neve.harrington.

#internationalwomensday #spinningplates #alicekettle #boleegallery #screensaversseries

Thank you to everyone that joined us today for ‘Spinning Plates’ on International Women’s Day.Thank you also to Alice Kettle for such an inspiring talk and to Elisa @vasche_visive and Iris @irisypchan for their wonderful performance of ‘Screensaver Series’ choreographed by @j.neve.harrington.

#internationalwomensday #spinningplates #alicekettle #boleegallery #screensaversseries