Chloe Holt - Chester, North West UK based artist

Age:

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:

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 – exploring the methods of the old masters as a new approach for me to follow in my painting – I hope eventually to have an exhibition at Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales to showcase these new works. I will continue to have my work published to raise my funds.

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.