Threaded Horizons: Alice Kettle & Patricia Volk with Frank Bowling Editions

Threaded Horizons: Alice Kettle & Patricia Volk with Frank Bowling Editions

30 January - 21 March 2027

Venue

Kenny Gallery, RWA, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1PX

Price

Free

Date

30 January - 21 March 2027

This exhibition brings together three artists who use colour as a force of energy, emotion, and transformation.
 
Alice Kettle RWA works with thread as if it were paint, building luminous surfaces through thousands of stitched gestures. Her textiles hold stories of migration, community, and repair, revealing how making can be both an act of care and a form of resistance.
 
Patricia Volk RWA FRSS creates sculptural forms that pulse with rhythm and vitality. Her bold curves and saturated colours introduce a physical, architectural presence that echoes the dynamism of Kettle’s stitched lines.
 
Frank Bowling’s Editions anchor the exhibition with their fluid colour fields and layered chromatic depth. Bowling’s work, rooted in memory, mapping, and diaspora creates a powerful dialogue with Kettle’s narrative textiles and Volk’s sculptural abstractions.
 
Together, these artists explore how colour moves across surfaces and materials, how gesture becomes form, and how abstraction can hold deeply human stories.

Image: Alice Kettle RWA, Juggler (2026)

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