Stephen Kettle

Stephen Kettle (born 12 July 1966 in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England) is a British sculptor who works exclusively with slate.

[1][2] 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.

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Detail of the slate statue of Alan Turing by Stephen Kettle at Bletchley Park in 2007 [ 3 ]
Sculpture by Kettle of George Zambellas at RNAS Yeovilton