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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