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
Janette Kerr’s work is represented in public collections including the Maine Maritime Museum, USA, Royal Collection, London, 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 and private collections world-wide.
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Sea States, Cadogan Contemporary, London
2018 Slader’s Yard Gallery, Bridport, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire,
Cadogan Contemporary, London
2017 Arctic Air: an absolute difficult beauty - RWA Small Gallery, Bristol
2016 An Uncontrollable Force - Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London
2015 Paintings from the Sea - Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London,
New Work from Shetland Kilmorack Gallery, Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour
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, Sea Drawing - RWA, Bristol
2011 World Meteorological Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland, Janette Kerr: Extreme Wave theory - Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland Isles, Royal Geographic Society, Kensington, London,
Janette Kerr: On the far edge Sir Terry Frost Gallery, King’s School, Worcester, Sea Drawings, UWE, Bristol, UK
2010 St Giles Gallery, Norwich, UK
2009 Origin Gallery, Dublin, ROI, Peripheral Visions - Cadogan Contemporary Gallery,London
2007 Edge, Hybrid Gallery, Honiton, Janette Kerr - Seascapes, St Giles Gallery, Norwich
Group Exhibitions and Projects
2020 Cadogan Contemporary: 40 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Landlinks/Groundwork Walk project, Somerset Reacquainted - Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury, Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy
2019 John Davis Gallery, Pre-Christmas & New Year Exhibition; Moreton-in-Marsh,
Igniting Sight: contemporary artists inspired by Turner, Slader's Yard, Bridport
Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy
Wales Contemporary 2019 Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven, and Mall Galleries, London
Black Swan Open, Frome, Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2018 Currents: Ways of seeing water, Slader's Yard Contemporary Gallery, Bridport, Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Fragile Latitudes, The Step Gallery, Arizona State University, USA, Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 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
2003-2020 Royal West of England Academy Annual Autumn Exhibition, Bristol
2014-2020 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2016 Radiance - Sladers Yard, Bridport, Scottish Artists Inspired by the Sea, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2012-16 Royal Academy Summer Show, London
2014 The Power of the Sea: Making waves in British Art, RWA, Bristol, 20x20 – Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland, Small works - Hilton Fine Art, Bath, Birmingham & Beyond: 200 Year Celebration - RBSA, Birmingham, Hilton Fine Art, Bath, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, A2 Gallery, Wells, UK, Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour
2013 Sladers Yard, Bridport, Small Works, Cadogan Contemporary, London, The Wilder Shores of Love, Hilton Fine Art, Bath, Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour, Works on Paper - Cadogan Contemporary, London, 30th Anniversary Exhibition - Cadogan Contemporary, London, Abstraction - Cadogan Contemporary, London, Open Studios, Somerset
2010 Air Gallery, Wells, Somerset, Hampshire Art Fair Hampshire, Open Painting Exhibition RWA, Bristol
2010-7 Cadogan Country Art Show, London UK & Hampshire, 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, Around the British Coastline, Richard Hagen Gallery, Broadway,
West Country Artists, Bowlish Gallery, Bowlish, Somerset, Workshop Wales Gallery, Fishguard, Wales
2009/8 Affordable Art Fair, London
2008 Night: A Time Between - Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Edinburgh Art Fair (Bowlish Gallery), Scotland
2007 Earth, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome Art Festival, Somerset, Micro-Macro, Queens Street Gallery, Emsworthy, Hampshire, Affordable Art Fair (Bowlish Gallery), Bristol, Inspires Gallery, Oxford, Alpha House Gallery, Sherbourne, Dorset, Quartz Visual Arts Festival, Taunton, Somerset, Bowlish Contemporary Gallery, Bowlish, Somerset, Sadler Street Gallery, Wells, Somerset, Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour
Residencies since 2006
2020 Nes International art residency, Skagaströnd, NW Iceland
2016 Arctic Circle Programme expedition
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
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)