About me | Janette Kerr

Janette Kerr

Royal Scottish Academy Honorary Academician

Royal West of England Academician

President of the Royal West of England Academy (2011- 2016)

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Virtual 'The Shed Gallery' exhibition - featured artist April: (https://www.facebook.com/groups/317854220065325)

2023

Sea Changes, Clifton Contemporary Gallery, Bristol UK

2022

Sladers Yard Contemporary Gallery, Bridport, Dorset, UK

Pittenweem Art Festival - invited lead artist, Scotland, UK

2021

Hyperborea: beyond the north wind: Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire, Scotland

2020

Sea States, Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK

2018

Far North, Slader’s Yard Gallery, Bridport U

North II Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire, Scotland

North, Cadogan Contemporary, London UK

2017

Arctic Air: an absolute difficult beauty - RWA Small Gallery, Bristol, UK

2016

An Uncontrollable Force - Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London UK

2015

Paintings from the Sea - Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London, UK

New Work from Shetland - Kilmorack Galley, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK

2014

Meteorological Musings - Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK

2013

Kystmuseet i Øygarden, Bergen, Norway

2012

Marine Research Institute, and Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway

Sixty Degrees North - Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK

Sea Drawing - RWA, Bristol, UK

2011

World Meteorological Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Janette Kerr: Extreme Wave theory - Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland

Royal Geographic Society, Kensington, London, UK

Janette Kerr: On the far edge - Sir Terry Frost Gallery, King’s School, Worcester, UK

Sea drawings - UWE, Bristol, UK

2010

St Giles Gallery, Norwich, UK

2009

Origin Gallery, Dublin, ROI

Peripheral Visions - Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London, UK

2007

Edge - Hybrid Gallery, Honiton, UK

Janette Kerr - Seascapes, St Giles Gallery, Norwich, UK

Group / invited / selected

2024

Trinity Wharf Drawing prize exhibition, London 3 - 16 Oct, then touring - Salisbury Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Drawing Projects UK in Dundee, and Waterside, Manchester until October 2025.

RWA 171st Annual Exhibition, Bristol - 14 Sept 2024 - 5 Jan 2025

Squaring Up, Aberdeen Artist Society, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen - 5th Oct- 9th November

Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland - 29 June to 17 August

Open Eye Gallery - May 30

198th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK 11 May to 16 June

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours 212 exhibition, Mall Gallery, London - March 28th to April 13

2023

Borrowed Land - Reinventing Scottish Landscape, Kilmorack Gallery - 18 Nov 2023 to 2 March 2024

On a Small Scale 2023 - Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Gallery, London

New English Art Club Annual, Mall Galleries, London

From the Mountains to the Sea - Beaux Art, Bath

Kwikn - Kilmorack Gallery, By Beauly, Inverness-shire

Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2022

Discerning Eye, London

Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire

ARTeries Gallery, Glasgow

Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, UK

Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

2021

The sea the sea: Sladers Yard, Bridport, 4 person exhibition

Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

Landlinks/Groundwork – Place Time Material, Three Storeys Art Centre, Nailsworth (film / mixed media work)

Somerset Reacquainted bookwork, touring Somerset venues

2020

Cadogan Contemporary: 40 Year Anniversary Exhibition

Landlinks/Groundwork Walk http://groundworks.org.uk/wp/landlinks/ UK

Somerset Reacquainted - Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury, UK

Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, UK

2019

John Davis Gallery, Pre-Christmas & New Year Exhibition; Moreton-in-Marsh UK

Igniting Sight: contemporary artists inspired by Turner, Slader's Yard, Bridport UK

Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, UK

Wales Contemporary 2019 Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven, and Mall Galleries, London

Black Swan Open, Frome, UK

Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

Kilmorack Gallery, By Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland

2018

Currents: Ways of seeing water, Slader's Yard Contemporary Gallery, Bridport, UK

Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, UK

Fragile Latitudes, The Step Gallery, Arizona State University, USA

Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

A Case for Place - interdisciplinary project with Land 2, Steel Rooms Gallery, Brigg, UK

2017

Janette Kerr & Malcolm Ashman - Andelli Art, Wells, Somerset

Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK

2003-2022

Royal West of England Academy Annual Autumn Exhibition, Bristol, UK

2014-2023

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

2016

Radiance - Sladers Yard, Bridport, UK

Scottish Artists inspired by sea - Kilmorak Gallery, Inverness-shire, Scotland

2012-16

Royal Academy Summer Show, London, UK

2014

The Power of the Sea: Making waves in British Art - RWA, Bristol, UK

20x20 - Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland, UK

Small works - Hilton Fine Art, Bath

Birmingham & Beyond: 200 Year Celebration - RBSA, Birmingham, UK

Hilton Fine Art, Bath, UK

Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

A2 Gallery, Wells, UK

Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK

2013

Sladers Yard, Bridport, UK

Small Works - Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK

The Wilder Shores of Love - Hilton Fine Art, Bath UK

Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK

Works on Paper - Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK

30th Anniversary Exhibition - Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK

Abstraction - Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK

Open Studios, Somerset, UK

2010

Air Gallery, Wells, Somerset, UK

Hampshire Art Fair Hampshire, UK

Open Painting Exhibition - RWA, Bristol, UK

2010-7

Cadogan Country Art Show, London UK & Hampshire, UK

Kilkenny Arts Festival - Fine Art & Applied Art, Ballyduff House, ROI

2009

Kilkenny Arts Festival, ROI

Irish Art - Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour (3 person), UK

Around the British Coastline - Richard Hagen Gallery, Broadway, UK

West Country Artists - Bowlish Gallery, Bowlish, Somerset, UK

Workshop Wales Gallery, Fishguard, Wales, UK

2009/8

Affordable Art Fair, London, UK

2008

Night: A Time Between - Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK

Edinburgh Art Fair (Bowlish Gallery), Scotland

2007

Earth - Rook Lane Chapel, Frome Art Festival, Somerset, UK

Micro-Macro (2 person) - Queens Street Gallery, Emsworthy, Hampshire, UK

Affordable Art Fair (Bowlish Gallery), Bristol, UK

Inspires Gallery, Oxford (2 person), UK

Alpha House Gallery, Sherbourne, Dorset, UK

Quartz Visual Arts Festival, Taunton, Somerset, UK

Bowlish Contemporary Gallery, Bowlish, Somerset, UK

Sadler Street Gallery, Wells, Somerset, UK

Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK

Community Project exhibitions

2023

The Northern Solargraph Exchange: conversation between two landscapes - images and field recordings, Unst Heritage Centre, Shetland (initiated and curated by J Kerr)

Somerset Solargraphic community project - curator of exhibition - Studio 10, East Quay, Watchett, 29th April– 21st May

2022

The Northern Solargraph Exchange: conversation between two landscapes - images and field recordings, Mareel, Shetland (initiated and curated by J Kerr)

Touring: Confusing Shadow with Substance – collaborative installation by Janette Kerr & Jo Millett; Heritage Centre, Unst, Shetland; Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Scotland; Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine

2021

Confusing Shadow with Substance – collaborative installation by Janette Kerr & Jo Millett; Easthouse, Burra, Shetland

Ling received: Fishermen of the far haaf: sound walk. Collaboration by Janette Kerr, Jo Millett, & Satsymph; Stenness Beach, Shetland

Somerset Solargraphic community project - curator of exhibition The Black Swan, Frome, UK

2017

Confusing Shadow with Substance - installation Janette Kerr & Jo Millett; Da Gadderi, Shetland Museum

Residencies since 2006

2022 Oqaatsut/Iullisaat, Greenland

2020 Nes International art residency, Skagaströnd, NW Iceland

2016 Arctic Circle Programme expedition http://www.thearcticcircle.org/#

2012 Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway

Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwal

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2010 The Booth, Shetland

2012 Shetland Fishing stations – research project

2006/8/9 Cill Rialaig, International artists & writers retreat, S Ireland

Collaborations

2024

Winter Solstice - I have been included in the selection of artists for Winter Solstice 2023.

The full video of 17 artists and their creative responses to the solstice can be watched here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77iiA4jHoU

2023

Convergence/Divergence: a walk in seven pauses. A collective poem and images created during a weekend with the Walking the Land group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsir6U15YBU

Publications/Essays/Interviews

2024

Channel 5 featured artist in 'Shetland - Scotland's Wondrous Isle'

2023

Hendrick Gin featured artist for promotional film

2020

https://landscaperesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/LRE-90-FINAL-032.pdf (Arctic landscape painting)

https://floatingcircle-rwa.org/2020/06/09/artists-in-lockdown-janette-kerr-prwa/

http://groundworks.org.uk/wp/in-conversation-with-janette-kerr/

2019

https://www.creativeboom.com/features/janette-kerr/

https://www.lux-review.com/janette-kerr-north/

https://www.moderdy.org/artists

2018

'Night representation and indeterminacy: night in landscape painting', Landscape Research (1st pub 1997)

2017

'Poised between land and far haaf', New Shetlander No 281

Interview: Radio Shetland July 20th re Confusing Shadow with Substance installation

Ofi Issue 52 Arctic Special Online: http://en.calameo.com/books/00473905900e81dd8869f

Rogue waves: Anatomy of a Monster, M Olagnon & J Kerr, Bloomsbury

2015

Anatomie curieuse des vagues scélérates, M Olagnon & J Kerr, Quae, France

Transcan Vol 10, Australia

Interview: Made in Bristol TV 1st Dec re Arctic Expedition

2014

The Power of the Sea, Dr Janette Kerr & Prof Christina Payne (co-ed), Samson & Co

2011

An Eye for a Storm: The paintings of Janette Kerr, Urthona 28, Melita Press

Janette Kerr - film by Mark Parry, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iU9vh9YTA0

2010

Extremes and Instabilities, catalogue, Blurb

2008

Night: A Time Between - catalogue (ed & contributor), RWA Bristol

Featured artist - ART, RWA Magazine (June)

2006

Fifty Wessex Artists: [Evolver] Books

2005

Representation & Indeterminacy: A Study of Night in Painting, PhD thesis, UWE

2000

In House Twice – Artists’ Book, Wild Conversations Press

1999

The Painters Eye: Janette Kerr. Art Review Magazine

Work in Collections

Maine Maritime Museum, USA

Royal Collection, London UK

Shetland Arts, Shetland Isles

NorthLink Ferries, Scotland

Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway

Dublin Office of Public Works

RWA Permanent Collection, Tallboys Bequest Bristol

Victoria Art Gallery Print Collection, Bath

Grizedale Society, Cumbria

Colle Verde Art Trust, Tuscany

Private collections world-wide

Awards

2022

Creative Scotland - Slow Time Fast Time - conversations between two landscape - Greenland and Shetland

2020

Creative Scotland – collaborative project tour: Confusing Shadow with Substance

2019

Black Swan Open - local artist prize

2017

Creative Scotland – collaborative project: Confusing Shadow with Substance

2014

MET, Norway: funding to attend Extreme Wave International Conference

2012/10

Arts Council England - Professional Development & Research

Turning Point South West Bursary -The Penzance Convention

NorthLink Ferries travel support - Extreme Wave Theory project

Richard Hagan Gallery - research project

2000

Windle Trust Bursary

1999

David Murray Studentship Award, Royal Academy Schools

1996

Ruskin/Colle Verde Travel Bursary

1995

1st prize, Laing Landscape Art (SW)

Conference/symposium papers

2018

Keynote speaker - 'The Embodied Experience of Drawing' Conference, Plymouth

2017

Collaborative Practice, CMIT biennial ASLE-UKI with LAND2, Sheffield Hallaam

2016

Relate North Symposium, ASAD

Making in Transit series, The Cube, London

2014

Keynote speaker - Land2 drawing symposium, Plymouth University

2013

Kystmuseet i Øygarden, Bergen, Norway

Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway

Extreme Wave International Conference, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

2011

Meteorological Imaginations Panel - RGS Annual Conference, London, UK

Art & Geography Symposium, UWE Bristol

2008

Curator of symposia and programmes of talks to accompany Night: A Time Between; British Waters & beyond

Drawn; Regionalism & Identity in British Art.

I regularly give talks about my practice and research projects to Art Societies, students, galleries - too numerous to list; most recently for Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institute, Friends of the RWA (Bristol), Cleveland Art Society, Wells Men’s Breakfast Club, U3A, Da Gadderie (Shetland Museum & Archives), BA students, UHI (Shetland).

2021-22 Artist's Mentor (funded by Somerset Arts)

Curatorial

2023 Invited selector for Wales Contemporary Open

2022 Slow Time - Fast time - community solargraphic exhibition, The Mareel, Shetland

2022 Slow Time - community solargraphic exhibition, Black Swan Gallery, Frome

2019 Invited selector for Wales Contemporary Open

2008 Night: A Time between - RWA Bristol

2014 Power of the Sea - RWA Bristol

2011-16 RWA Annual Open and 'Drawn' exhibitions

Small solo exhibitions for RWA Academicians

Websites

http://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com