Alice Kettle is a contemporary textile artist based in the UK who specializes in machine embroidery and painting. She creates large-scale works that depict stories and themes about human existence using thread lines to represent relationships and emotions. Kettle layers embroidery stitches in various sizes to create tones and textures that form crowded atmospheres, often painting a base color first.

1. ALICE KETTLE
Machine Embroidery

2. BIOGRAPHY AND WORK
 Contemporary textile artist based in the UK
 Works with an incredible scale
 Specialises in machine embroidery and painting
 1985 – 86 Goldsmiths' College Postgraduate Diploma
in Textile Art
1979 – 84 University of Reading BA Hons
Fine Art
 Kettle creates work that shows stories and themes of
our very existence.
 She uses the line of thread to represent relationships
and emotions

3. Use of couching – to thicken lines to
separate objects, in this case to separate
the person from the background
Layers and layers of
embroidery creating tones
and textures which form
crowed atmosphere
Painted base – adding the main
colour and adding extra tone.
Ranges of stitch size – The
white blends in with the pink
as the stitch is very small,
whereas the blue stitches are
a lot larger.

4. The figures in Kettle’s work reminds me of the sketchy
line figures in Perry's work.
In my piece of the Hensel Twins, I could stitch figures
either by hand or machine.
However, I won’t be able to work as big as Kettle as
I’m creating a shirt, so it'll be easier for me to hand
stitch the figures.
I could however use machine embroidery on the
organs that I’m having on the inside of my shirt. That
way, I can create a range of textures