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Janette Kerr
Biography
Jannette Kerr PPRWA RSA (Hon) (b. 1959) is a painter of wildness. She seeks out places where change is swift, powerful and where the sea boils. The uncompromising nature of her work incorporates all the energy of Action Painting with the tangible sensations of wind-swept waves, salt spray and ocean swell. Kerr normally paints from her studios in Shetland or Somerset; but often seeks out even wilder and remoter experiences. In 2016 she was part of an art and science expedition to the Antarctic.
“My process of making paintings involves extremes and instabilities: peripheries and promontories - sites of instability and unknowing, places of rapid change and shifts both physically and meteorologically.” Janette Kerr
Janette Kerr was President of the Royal West of England Academy from 2011-2016, an Honorary Royal Academician and a visiting Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of the West of England.
Selected CV
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
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 - forthcoming - 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