Jack Kettlewell

Style and practice

Sheffield-based painter Jack Kettlewell works on paper and canvases of wide ranging scale. He makes paintings about painting history, his own history, nostalgia, and contemporary culture. Tapping into the Western/European canon of painting history, varying styles and motifs are deployed in revisiting time honoured themes.

Exhibitions and projects

Jack received an MA in Fine Art from Staffordshire in 1998. On leaving art school the dual lives of painter and gallery technician played out. In the early 2000’s Kettlewell worked as assistant to Howard Hodgkin and spent 20 years as an art handler at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Tate, the Courtauld Gallery, Phillips auction house and various contemporary galleries. He worked with established art luminaries such as David Hockney, Humphrey Ocean, Peter Doig, Richard Long, Brigitte Riley, Richard Serra and others. These experiences underpinned and informed his painting practice. He has exhibited widely, including at the National Portrait Gallery and in the Royal Academy Summer Show, and was a prize-winner in Lynn Painter-Stainers and the Brixton Open. Jack also completed a commissioned residency at Farnborough Hospital.