Biography
Natasha Kerr (b. London, UK 1968) did aa art foundation year at Withens Lane College, Wallesley on The Wirral, Merseyside (1987-8) and studied fashion textile design at Brighton University (1988-92). She spent a year working in a fashion prediction agency; the BBC costume department; a specialist silkscreen printer;s and three design studios in London and Lyon, France. She was awarded a licentiate from the Textile Institute in Manchester (the Fred Carter Brown Award) and was selected as one of 30 graduates nationally for sponsorship to exhibit at Texprint in Dusseldorf, Germany. Kerr set up her first studio in Bloomsbury, London in 1994. Her first solo show in Ruthin, Wales in 1996 toured to the BBC in Manchester and she also showed work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and with the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. She created the installation There Are Things You Don’t Need To Know (1998), inspired by a fmily photograph album from her grandfather, a Viennese surgeon, who had come to Britain in 1936. It oook up an entire Victorian townhouse in Battersea, London.
