Stephen Kettle
British sculptor (born 1966)
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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:
- 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.
