Stephen Kettle

Stephen Kettle (born 12 July 1966 in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England) is a British sculptor who works exclusively with slate.

Career
Kettle is a self-taught sculptor with no formal training. His best known works include a statue of the Supermarine Spitfire's designer R. J. Mitchell, commissioned for the Science Museum in London, which was the first statue of its type in the world, and a life-size statue of Alan Turing, the founder of computer science and Enigma codebreaker, commissioned by the American philanthropist Sidney Frank for Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.

Besides the statues of Turing and Mitchell, other notable works by Kettle include portrait busts of the following:
 * George Zambellas, first sea lord at RNAS Yeovilton
 * Winston Churchill in Buckingham Palace
 * Frederick Barclay at the London Ritz
 * Donald Gosling
 * Ronald Hobson
 * A double portrait of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the grounds of Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.



Personal life
Kettle lives with his wife and three children in west London.