Alan Holt
e-mail: ahsculptor@gmail.com
Lives: Halifax, Yorkshire
Colleges Attended:
Bradford College of Art Art Foundation
Newcastle Polytechnic BA(hons) Fine Art
St Martins School of Art, London Advanced Sculpture
Leicester Polytechnic School of Education PGCE(Art Education)
Art and Sculpture Long Term Teaching:
Bradford College - ceramics
Broadway School, Cheadle, Cheshire - art & design with 3d specialism
The Kingsway School, Cheadle, Cheshire - art & design
Cheadle Adult Education Centre - sculpture
All Saints RC High School, Huddersfield - art & design
The North Halifax Grammar School - art & design
Fartown High School, Huddersfield - art & design
Yorkshire Martyrs RC High School, Bradford - art & design
Calder High School, Mytholmroyd, Halifax - art & design
Sculptural, Creative Work and Exhibitions:
New Contemporaries Exhibition, London 1976
Harlow New Town Sculpture Exhibition 1976
Percival Whitley College foyer, Halifax 1978
The Church Gallery, Leicester, Five Student Teachers exhibition 1978
National Society for Art Education members exhibition, Didsbury 1980
Made first carved mantelpiece 1982
Started full time woodcarving business 1987
Arts and Crafts Fair Alexandra Palace, London 1989
Over 200 bespoke mantelpieces designed and carved for clients1987-2008
Other items created included :-
Carved wall and staircase panels
Jacobean refectory table and chair carvings
Decorative carved frontages for fairground organs
Rocking horses
Applique carvings and plaques