The Towers is a a large-scale, textile triptych by British artist Alice Kettle. The artist created the work in response to the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. After the work was first shown in the U.S. during a 2009 Surface Design Conference in Kansas City, the artist gifted Towers to the Belger Collection so that it would remain in the U.S.

Kettle is a contemporary textile/fibre artist based in the UK working since 1986. She originally trained as a painter and this continues to drive and underpin her work. She has established a unique area of practice by her use of a craft medium, consistently and on an unparallelled scale. Her work is primarily textile based, the expressive journey of a line of thread, which is made up of individual tiny stitches combined to form swathes of colour and painterly backgrounds which incorporate rich hues and metallic sheen. The exploration of digital stitch and print programmes have been an area of research which sit within her practice. The content looks at narrative, material memory and the cyclical repetition of universal story/myth and cloth.

Her work is represented in various public collections throughout the world and Her interest in cross material and collaborative practice has initiated the Pairings touring show and she is currently co editing Collaboration through Craft commissioned by Berg. Other publications include machine Stitch perspectives and Hand Stitch perspectives published by Bloomsbury. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University and is Visiting Professor at the University of Winchester.