A unique and monumental work of art, commissioned by Lloyd’s Register, connecting the worlds of applied and fine art, has been installed at the Global Technology Centre in Southampton
Yesterday Lloyd’s Register celebrated the installation of major new work of art at its Global Technology Centre in Southampton. A Map to the Future by Alice Kettle is an eight by three metre embroidery marrying the skill of ‘painting with thread’ – the craft of free machine embroidery – with contemporary, digital stitching. These techniques mirror Lloyd’s Register’s journey from being the original classification society in a pre-industrial age, to today’s multi-stranded, global technology driven organisation, owned by one of Britain’s biggest charities.
The embroidery is a unique, magnificent image of the world which incorporates LR iconography along the currents of the oceans and nestling on the land at the edges of the seas. Over the year it has taken to conceive and create, Alice has crafted a monumental, richly detailed and layered work of art.
The Beca Artist Paul Davies
makes a map of Wales from
film and video tape as an
‘art intervention’ during
the inaugural meeting to
form the (short lived)
Film, Video and
Photography Association
of Wales.
Bala creates his art-work using memorised and imagined maps and landscapes, commenting on Welsh culture.[6] He has won many prizes including the Gold Medal in Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1997 (and a prize winner in 1988, 1989 and 1993). He won the Glyndŵr Award in 1998, “for outstanding contributions to the arts in Wales”.[2] He has also been recipient of grants from the Arts Council of Wales, including a travel grant to visit Zimbabwe in 1990, research funding for “Certain Welsh Artists”, a collection of essays published by Seren Books in 1999 and a Career Development Grant (printmaking) 2001. He was also awarded a Wales Art International travel grant to Galicia in 2004 and Brittany in 2007.[4]
Michelle weaves traditional and digital forms with overlooked domestic objects, tracing memory, belonging, and displacement as metaphors for her own lived journey. Her work is an invitation to feel and remember, to unmask what lies beneath, and to step into the visibility of being seen.
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The Beca Artist Paul Davies
Michelle Wright, Fine Artist 