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

Royal British Society of Sculptors

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 and is the author of Modelling and Sculpture, published in 1976 by Hamlyn Hobby Horses. ISBN 0600344479.

He was awarded a Churchill Scholarship

Churchill Scholarship

The Churchill Scholarship is awarded by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States to graduates of the more than one hundred colleges and universities participating in the Churchill Scholarship Program, to pursue research and study in engineering, mathematics, or other sciences for one...

 to study the relationship between Poetry, Religion and Music on the Island of Mauritius

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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:-

• Sculptural work at Guildford Cathedral- Four Clipsham stone figures for Guildford Cathedral
  Guildford Cathedral
  The Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit, Guildford is the Anglican cathedral at Guildford, Surrey, England.-Construction:Guildford was made a diocese in its own right in 1927, and work on its new cathedral, designed by Sir Edward Maufe, began nine years later, with the foundation stone being laid...
  
  : 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
  Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
  Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam KT,GCMG,KCMG,LRCP, MRCS is the first Chief Minister, Prime Minister and sixth Governor General of Mauritius....
  
   (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
  Anne Boleyn
  Anne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...
  
   at Sutton
  London Borough of Sutton
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   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

External links

Guildford Cathedral

Guildford Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit, Guildford is the Anglican cathedral at Guildford, Surrey, England.-Construction:Guildford was made a diocese in its own right in 1927, and work on its new cathedral, designed by Sir Edward Maufe, began nine years later, with the foundation stone being laid...