See the feature “Strokes of Luck” on Chloe in the february 2010 issue of CHESHIRE LIFE Magazine! Pages 36-38.

Chloe has just finished exhibiting in the major exhibition the Florence Biennale 5 – 13 December 2009.

She was invited specially to exhibit by the internal committee earlier this year and has been able to participate many thanks to private sponsorship from Rick Parry Ex Chief Executive of Liverpool Football Club.

With special thanks to George Davies and his lovely GIVe team for their organisation and support transporting Chloe and her work to Florence in his private jet!

Artists are selected who have a website showing talent or cultural value. The exhibition will be held at the Historical Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy. In collaboration with the United Nations, the Biennale is also an official participant in the “Dialogue Among Civilisations” program. “Artists have a special role to play in the global struggle for peace…Art opens new doors for learning, understanding, and peace among people and nations,” said UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2003.

Find Chloe at Staacks Gallery, Banks Road, West Kirby in the beginning of June 2010. Unique smaller works specifically painted for the crafts gallery will feature. Exact dates to be confirmed.

Date of Birth:

17th April 1981

Education:

2007 Invited to be part of the Fellowship of the RSA indefinitely. Now Ms Chloe Holt FRSA.

2003 Accepted at The Royal College of Art (MA Printed Textiles) 2003, unable to start course due to funding. I still hope to go when I raise the funds.

2000 – 2003 The Manchester Metropolitan University (BA Hons Textile Design)

1999 – 2000 West Cheshire College (Fine Art Discipline)

1992 – 1999 Upton-by-Chester County High School

Qualifications:

  • BA Hons Textile Design First Class Honours Degree.
  • BTEC Diploma in Art and Design (Distinction).
  • A Level: Art (A); English Language (A); Biology (B).
  • 9 GCSE’s: Art & Design (A*); English (A); English literature (A); History (A); Science (AA); Maths (B); German (C); Keyboarding Applications (A + 50wpm).
  • RSA Word Processing and Keyboarding Applications: I Part 1; II Part 1; I Part 2; II Part 2.
  • I am also competent with Apple Macintosh and PC computers. Programmes including: Adobe Illustrator 9.0; Adobe Photoshop 6.0; QuarkXPress 3.32; iView Multimedia, digital photography and scanning.

Achievements, experiences and work:

2009

  • Invited to exhibit latest works in the Florence Biennale 5 – 13th December 2009 by the internal committee. My participation in the exhibition is sponsored by Rick Parry Chief Executive of Liverpool Football Club and supported by George Davies (GIVe, George at ASDA).

2007

  • Exhibition of work at Artroom Gallery Parkgate from 9th August to 30th September

2005

  • Work part-time at Sandra Harris Interiors & Antiques, Watergate Row South, Chester while continuing work on own portfolio and commissioned art. Here, my artwork features and the establishment becomes part gallery, part shop, part showroom. I help with buying and merchandising so in artistic terms – i help with the creation of an interiors boutique where design and art objects live side by side in an ever-changing series of domestic tableaux. Forming new narrative spaces using contextual display vignettes to introduce clients to artistic and artisanal objects that can be used singly or in combination.

2004

  • Art Teacher part-time at South Trafford College, Altrincham, Manchester – teaching evening classes, Life Drawing to Foundation Year level – ages 18-64.
  • Design work for Woodmansterne producing commercial cards and calendars.
  • Artwork published by Pauntley Prints, Blink Red and Catch Publishing.
  • Current production of mass-produced original works own designs for Ecosse Fine Arts, main wholesale buyer is John Lewis

2003

  • Final degree collection Fashion show at Topshop Graduate Fashion Week, London.
  • Printed soft furnishings with “Supernatural” award winning print, for Oliver Heath on BBC’s “Changing Rooms”.
  • Accepted at The Royal College of Art for Printed Textile MA.
  • RSA Fashion Fabric “Supernatural” Project wins “The Draper’s Company Travel Award”.
  • Commissioned painting series for Johnathan Bryan Opticians, Chester.

2002

  • Work experience at Edmond Taylor Textile Design, London, producing high-end contemporary Womenswear textile samples. Work sold to ‘Liz Clairbourne’ and ‘Fang’ in New York.
  • Artwork sold to ‘Crown Wallcoverings’.

2001

  • Manchester Metropolitan Uni Sports Representative for Faculty of Textiles and Fashion.

2000

  • Fashion Co-ordinator at ‘Morgan’ (11 Northgate St. Chester) for 12 months.
  • Food Illustration Lemons for ‘Packard Grey’, featured in ‘Daily Mail “Weekend” magazine.

1999

  • Part-Time Graphic Designer and Secretary at ‘Ziggurat Ltd. Advertising, Marketing and Graphic Design Co.’.
  • Exhibition of artwork produced on Artists in Tuscany trip and Italian costume fashion show at Woodford Arts Centre, Winsford.

1998

  • Awarded place on Young Cheshire Artists In Tuscany,Italy visit representing Upton High and up and coming artists of Cheshire.

1997

  • 6 months of A Level Photography course at West Cheshire College and related experience of photography and styling: food packaging with ‘CJ Studios’, Wirral for Ziggurat Ltd and fashion styling for photographer in North Wales.
  • GCSE Artwork exhibited by NEAB, representing highest standard at Woodford Lodge Arts Centre, Winsford.

1995

  • Two weeks work experience as Infant Teachers Aide at Millview CP School as an art tutor.

Future plans:

I hope to eventually undertake my two-year MA Printed Textiles course at ‘The Royal College of Art’. Here and hereafter I hope to either work within or set up a cutting-edge textile design company, pushing the boundaries of design incorporating digital printing yet keeping hold of traditional techniques, still remaining commercially viable, to make a difference within the field.

I am currently working up a portfolio of new works, all painting based in preparations for the Florence Biennale in December and an exhibition at the Artroom Gallery in Parkgate in October to November this year.

Statement:

Im interested in time and memory, objects silently disappearing into their surroundings. The beauty of surface decay. Trying to explore the human condition and what it means to be part of this natural world either through an innate symbolism or how we subconsciously view what surrounds us. Im fascinated by landscape, I attempt to bring a sense of spirit into my work, concerned with emotion, my works are mainly abstract because they try to experience the elements. I have recently incorporated figurative aspects illustrating the need for skill in drawing and painting and the symbolism and meaning of placement of particular objects not normally seen in an ‘art’ context -the mundane and banal – these objects developing metaphor and narrative through the way I limit how they are viewed by the viewer.

Artists that inspire me are Paul Klee; David Hockney; Antonio Tapies; Peter Lanyon; Cy Twombly; Anselm Keifer and Ewen Henderson.