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Stephen Kettle | |
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 Kettle with his sculpture of Sir Donald Gosling and Sir Ronald Hobson, founders of NCP car parks | |
| Born | 12 July 1966  |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
Stephen Kettle (born 12 July 1966 in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England) is a British sculptor who works exclusively with slate.[1][2]
Career
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Kettle is a self-taught sculptor with no formal training.[2] His best-known works include a slate sculpture of R. J. Mitchell, designer of the Supermarine Spitfire, held by the Science Museum, London. The sculpture was created in 2005 to commemorate Mitchell's life and work.[4] 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:
- George Zambellas, first sea lord at RNAS Yeovilton
- Winston Churchill in Buckingham Palace
- Frederick Barclay at the London Ritz
- Donald Gosling
- Ronald Hobson
- A double portrait of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the grounds of Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.
Personal life
[edit]Kettle lives with his wife and three children in west London.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Stephen Kettle — The Artist.
- 1 2 "Stephen Kettle: Profile". turnerfinearts.com. Turner Fine Arts. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- 1 2 "Bletchley Park Unveils Statue Commemorating Alan Turing". Archived from the original on 30 June 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2007.
- ↑ "Flight: Large Print Book" (PDF). Science Museum Group. p. 72. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Stephen Kettle". morleyart.co.uk. UK: Morley Contemporary Art. Retrieved 30 June 2007.
External links
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Media related to Stephen Kettle at Wikimedia Commons
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