Stephen Kettle
Kettle with his sculpture of Sir Donald Gosling and Sir Ronald Hobson, founders of NCP car parks
Born12 July 1966 Edit this on Wikidata
Castle Bromwich Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationSculptor Edit this on Wikidata

Stephen Kettle (born 12 July 1966 in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England) is a British sculptor who works exclusively with slate.[1][2]

Career

Detail of the slate statue of Alan Turing by Stephen Kettle at Bletchley Park in 2007[3]

Kettle is a self-taught sculptor with no formal training.[2] His best known works include a statue of the Supermarine Spitfire's designer R. J. Mitchell, commissioned for the Science Museum in London,[4] which was the first statue of its type in the world, and a life-size statue of Alan Turing, the founder of computer science and Enigma codebreaker,[5] commissioned by the American philanthropist Sidney Frank for Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.[3]

Besides the statues of Turing and Mitchell, other notable works by Kettle include portrait busts of the following:

Sculpture by Kettle of George Zambellas at RNAS Yeovilton

Personal life

Kettle lives with his wife and three children in west London.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Stephen Kettle — The Artist.
  2. 1 2 "Stephen Kettle: Profile". turnerfinearts.com. Turner Fine Arts. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Bletchley Park Unveils Statue Commemorating Alan Turing". Archived from the original on 30 June 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2007.
  4. ↑ Fenton, Ben (15 September 2005). "Why have we never honoured man who invented the Spitfire?". telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 June 2007.
  5. ↑ TurnerFineArts (11 June 2012). "Stephen Kettle does life size sculpture of Alan Turing 500,000 pieces of slate". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Stephen Kettle". morleyart.co.uk. UK: Morley Contemporary Art. Retrieved 30 June 2007.


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