Dennis Huntley

Anne Boleyn at Carshalton

Career

Dennis Huntley (born 1928) is a British sculptor born at Weybridge in Surrey. He studied Fine Art & Sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art and Furniture Design at The Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore and was Head of the Sir John Cass School of Art in Whitechapel for several years. He is a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and is the author of Modelling and Sculpture, published in 1976 by Hamlyn Hobby Horses. ISBN 0600344479.

He was awarded a Churchill Scholarship to study the relationship between Poetry, Religion and Music on the Island of Mauritius.

His work ranges from Figurative to Abstract and includes lettering and furniture design. Materials worked include Stone, Marble, Slate, Terracotta, Iron, Lead, Zinc, Bronze, Wood and Fibreglass.

Has designed innovative prototypes of stools and chairs which have featured in the London Craft Centre and elsewhere.

Works

Major commissions include:-

The work “Piety” by Dennis Huntley-A closer view

• Sculptural work at Guildford Cathedral- Four Clipsham stone figures for Guildford Cathedral: St Hubert, St Cecilia, Lady Margaret Beaufort and Piety as well as two limewood angels for the Children’s chapel in that Cathedral.

• Figurative Bath Stone corbels for St,Mark’s Church in Wimbledon. Sadly these were destroyed when a fire ravaged the church in 1966. These were “Angel with Syrinx”; “Christ turning out money changers”; “Peter and the tribute money” and “St Luke and St John”.

• A bronze portrait of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900–1985) the first Prime Minister of an independent Mauritius, commissioned by the Government of Mauritius and won in competition. Now in the grounds of the Ramgoolam National Hospital in Pamplemousses, Mauritius.

• A polychrome figure of Anne Boleyn at Sutton in Surrey. This is featured in the “I-Spy” book issued by Sutton Leisure Services –ISBN 1-85671-103-X,

• The bronze “Child in a robe” held in a private collection

• A modelled and cast figurehead of a woman on a privately owned treehouse in Biarritz the tree house being in the form of a galleon.

• Carving “Girl with Medallion” held in a private collection.

• 7 ft. Semi-Abstract Metal Figure commissioned by the LCC Patronage of the Arts Scheme for the Henry Thornton Comprehensive School, Clapham South Side, London.

• Numerous portraits.

• A Totem Pole Bird Bath in a private collection.

• Wood carved memorial to James Melrose Tate O.B.E M.D., the obstetrician, commissioned by the Carshalton War Memorial Hospital

Images

In the gallery below we can see images of some of Huntley’s works.

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  Statue of St Cecilia by Dennis Huntley

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  Close-up of Lady Margaret Beaufort by Dennis Huntley

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  Another view of “Piety”

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  The Totem Pole Bird Bath

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  The carving for a Treehouse in Biarritz.

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  Girl with Medallion.

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  One of the limewood angels at Guildford Cathedral.

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  The second limewood angel at Guildford Cathedral.

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  One of the St.Marks corbels.

External links

Guildford Cathedral

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