Stephen Kettle

Stephen Kettle
Stephen Kettle
	Kettle with his sculpture of Sir Donald Gosling and Sir Ronald Hobson, founders of NCP car parks
Born	12 July 1966 ; Castle Bromwich
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

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,^{[citation needed]} 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:

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

^ Stephen Kettle — The Artist.
^ ^a ^b "Stephen Kettle: Profile". turnerfinearts.com. Turner Fine Arts. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Bletchley Park Unveils Statue Commemorating Alan Turing". Archived from the original on 30 June 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2007.
^ 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.
^ 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.

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