Janette Kerr – Selected CV 2021-2007
Royal Scottish Academy Honorary Academician
Royal West of England Academician
2011- 2016 President of the Royal West of England Academy
Visiting Research Fellow, Fine Art, UWE Bristol
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Kilmorak Gallery, Inverness-shire, Scotland, April
Confusing Shadow with Substance – collaborative installation by Janette Kerr & Jo Millett: six
locations in Shetland and Scotland UK
Pittenweem Art Festival - invited lead artist, Scotland , UK - August 2021
2020
Sea States, Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK - October
2018
Slader’s Yard Gallery, Bridport UK
Kilmorak Gallery, Inverness-shire, Scotland
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 - Kilmorak 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 Isles
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 and invited Exhibitions and Projects
2021
Sladers Yard, Bridport, 4 person exhibition - May
Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2020
Cadogan Contemporary: 40 Year Anniversary Exhibition - July
Landlinks/Groundwork Walk project: http://groundworks.org.uk/wp/landlinks/
Somerset Reacquainted - Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury, November - January 2021
Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, UK
2019
John Davis Gallery, Pre-Christmas & New Year Exhibition; Moreton-in-Marsh UK 30 Nov - 11 Jan
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
Kilmorak 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
Confusing Shadow with Substance - installation Janette Kerr & Jo Millett, Shetland Museum
Janette Kerr & Malcolm Ashman - Andelli Art, Wells, Somerset
Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, UK
2003-2020
Royal West of England Academy Annual Autumn Exhibition, Bristol, UK
2014-2020
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
Blackbird Gallery, Kilkenny (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
Residencies since 2006
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 Cornwall
2010
The Booth, Shetland
2012
Shetland Fishing stations – research project
2006/08/09
Cill Rialaig, International artists & writers retreat, S Ireland
Publications/Essays/Interviews
2020
(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.lux-review.com/janette-kerr-north/
https://www.moderdy.org/artists
2018
'Night representation and indeterminacy: night in landscape painting', Landscape Research
'best articles over 28 years' collection (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:
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,
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
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
Talks
2013-2016
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, and Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum & Archives.
Curatorial
Invited selector for Wales Contemporary Open 2019
Night: A Time between - 2008 RWA Bristol
Power of the Sea - 2014 RWA Bristol
RWA Annual Open and Drawn exhibitions 2011-16
Small solo exhibitions for RWA Academicians
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