Stephen Kettle

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Statue of Alan Turing by Stephen Kettle at Bletchley Park.[1]

Stephen Kettle (born 12 July 1966, in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England) is a British sculptor who works exclusively with slate.[2][3]

Kettle a self-taught sculptor with no formal training.[3] His best known works include Supermarine Spitfire designer R. J. Mitchell, commissioned for the Science Museum in London,[4] which was the first statue of its type in the world,[citation needed] and a life size statue of Alan Turing, the founder of computer science and Enigma codebreaker,[5] commissioned by the American philanthropist Sidney E Frank for Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.[1] Kettle lives with his wife and three children in west London.[6]

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