Janette Kerr
- Work
- Biography
Janette Kerr is known for her paintings of the far North and High Arctic. Her direct experience of coastline, weather and oceanographic studies, push the boundaries between representation and abstraction.
'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
Kerr paints from her studios in Shetland, but often seeks out wilder and remoter experiences. Her residencies include NES International art residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland (2020), Arctic Circle Programme expedition (2016), and the Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway (2014). In 2022 she received funding from Creative Scotland for her project ‘Slow time, Fast Time’, living for 7 weeks in Oqaatsut, a remote Innuit settlement in Disko Bay, Greenland. During this residency she ran a solargraphic community project linking Shetland and Greenland through images and field recordings.
Kerr has a strong track record of initiating/working collaboratively, developing Confusing Shadow with Substance, film & sound installation on a Shetland fishing station (2017), setting up a sound walk using GPS technology on Stenness beach, Northmavine, with film & sound artist Jo Millett, and artists' collective Satsymph (2021)
Elected a Royal West of England Academy Academician in 2003 and RWA President from 2011-16, she is an Honorary Royal Scottish Academician. Kerr exhibits widely in the UK and abroad; her work is represented in public and private
'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
Kerr paints from her studios in Shetland, but often seeks out wilder and remoter experiences. Her residencies include NES International art residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland (2020), Arctic Circle Programme expedition (2016), and the Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway (2014). In 2022 she received funding from Creative Scotland for her project ‘Slow time, Fast Time’, living for 7 weeks in Oqaatsut, a remote Innuit settlement in Disko Bay, Greenland. During this residency she ran a solargraphic community project linking Shetland and Greenland through images and field recordings.
Kerr has a strong track record of initiating/working collaboratively, developing Confusing Shadow with Substance, film & sound installation on a Shetland fishing station (2017), setting up a sound walk using GPS technology on Stenness beach, Northmavine, with film & sound artist Jo Millett, and artists' collective Satsymph (2021)
Elected a Royal West of England Academy Academician in 2003 and RWA President from 2011-16, she is an Honorary Royal Scottish Academician. Kerr exhibits widely in the UK and abroad; her work is represented in public and private
Selected CV 2022-2017
Exhibitions
Solo
2023 Clifton Contemporary Gallery, Bristol
2022 Pittenweem Art Festival - lead artist.
Sladers Yard Contemporary Gallery, Bridport, Dorset
2021 Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2020 Cadogan Contemporary, London
2018 Slader’s Yard Gallery, Bridport;
Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
Cadogan Contemporary, London
2017 ‘Arctic Air: an absolute difficult beauty’, RWA, Bristol
Group/invited, Projects
2024
Trinity Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition, London
Squaring Up, Aberdeen Art Society, Gallery Heinzel
RWA 171st Annual Exhibition, Bristol
Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour - annual exhibition, Mall Gallery, London
Clifton Contemporary, Bristol
2023
Borrowed Land, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
New English Art Club, Annual, Mall Galleries, London
Royal Scottish Academy Annual, Edinburgh
2 person exhibition, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
Beaux Art, Bath
Slow Time, solargraphic community project, Watchet, Somerset
Conversations between two landscapes, solargraphic community project, Unst Heritage Centre, Shetland
2022
Discerning Eye, London
Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
ARTeries Gallery, Glasgow
Annual Exhibition, RWA, Bristol
‘Northern Solargraph Exchange: conversation between two landscapes’ - images and field recordings, Mareel, Shetland.
‘Confusing Shadow with Substance’ tour: Heritage Centre, Unst, Shetland; Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine; Easthouse, Burra, Shetland
2021
Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
Slader’s Yard, Bridport
Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
‘Ling received: Fishermen of the far haaf’ sound walk, Stenness, Shetland.
‘Slow Time’ Somerset Solargraphic community project, Black Swan, Frome
‘Place Time Material’, Landlinks/Groundwork, Nailsworth
2020
Cadogan Contemporary
‘Somerset Reacquainted’ - Rural Life
Exhibitions
Solo
2023 Clifton Contemporary Gallery, Bristol
2022 Pittenweem Art Festival - lead artist.
Sladers Yard Contemporary Gallery, Bridport, Dorset
2021 Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2020 Cadogan Contemporary, London
2018 Slader’s Yard Gallery, Bridport;
Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
Cadogan Contemporary, London
2017 ‘Arctic Air: an absolute difficult beauty’, RWA, Bristol
Group/invited, Projects
2024
Trinity Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition, London
Squaring Up, Aberdeen Art Society, Gallery Heinzel
RWA 171st Annual Exhibition, Bristol
Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour - annual exhibition, Mall Gallery, London
Clifton Contemporary, Bristol
2023
Borrowed Land, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
New English Art Club, Annual, Mall Galleries, London
Royal Scottish Academy Annual, Edinburgh
2 person exhibition, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
Beaux Art, Bath
Slow Time, solargraphic community project, Watchet, Somerset
Conversations between two landscapes, solargraphic community project, Unst Heritage Centre, Shetland
2022
Discerning Eye, London
Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
ARTeries Gallery, Glasgow
Annual Exhibition, RWA, Bristol
‘Northern Solargraph Exchange: conversation between two landscapes’ - images and field recordings, Mareel, Shetland.
‘Confusing Shadow with Substance’ tour: Heritage Centre, Unst, Shetland; Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine; Easthouse, Burra, Shetland
2021
Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
Slader’s Yard, Bridport
Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
‘Ling received: Fishermen of the far haaf’ sound walk, Stenness, Shetland.
‘Slow Time’ Somerset Solargraphic community project, Black Swan, Frome
‘Place Time Material’, Landlinks/Groundwork, Nailsworth
2020
Cadogan Contemporary
‘Somerset Reacquainted’ - Rural Life
- Janette Kerr
- Snjobylur yfir hafinu, Skagastrond, diptych 140x300cm
- Oil
- Janette Kerr
- Kwikn - sea state 7 (October storms) oil on canvas 95x150cm
- Oil
- Janette Kerr
- Shabbers Head, Brindister oil on gesso panel 16x19cm
- Oil
- Janette Kerr
- Sea state force 12 - Cresting waves and spray, oil on canvas 76x102cm
- Oil
- Janette Kerr
- Fishermen of the north 6
- Drawing
- Janette Kerr
- The trapper's hut, Svalbard 100x150cm . Graphite & watercolour on Mylar, hand stitched onto Fabriano acid-free cartridge paper.
- Drawing
- Janette Kerr
- Qanunge - imaqa. Oqaatsut, Greenland, 19.5x34.5cm,
- Mixed Media
- Janette Kerr
- Ice painting, Oqaatsut, Greenland
- Mixed Media
SHARE THIS PAGE