HEIRLOOMS OF THE FUTURE Heirlooms of the Future
On first encountering the colourful, often enormous artworks of Alice Kettle, one would be forgiven for mistaking them for paintings. From a distance, her shimmering, abstract figures, set against the brightest backgrounds of electric blue, sunshine yellow and hot coral and pink, appear to be drawn with the dynamic lines and marks of the brush stroke. But a closer look reveals that it is not paint that is bringing these canvases – sometimes as large as eight metres by three metres – to life, but rather stitches of thread. Alice Kettle is a textile artist who, in place
