Antony Holloway – artist born March 8th 1928 he died on August 9th 2000.
Dorset was where he was born and grew up and the Dorset landscape was always there deep within him. He was educated at Poole grammar school between 1939 and 1945. After national service in the Royal Air Force in Dorset and Germany from 1948 to 1953 he studied at Bournemouth College of Art. Then came the RCA.
Tony began work as a stained glass and mural designer and jumped, with astonishing confidence, into working as a consultant designer with the architects’ division of the London County Council. He learned how to deal with architects and builders, and became adept at getting as much out of the money available – never enough – for his projects.
In 1963 he was introduced to the Manchester architect, Harry Fairhurst. Eight years later, after they had worked together on commissions in Cheshire and Liverpool, Fairhurst sought Tony’s advice about a plan for five large stained-glass windows in Manchester Cathedral.
Tony asked to design and make the first window, the St George in the inner south-west aisle. It was completed in 1973. Further windows followed in 1976 and 1980 and the final window, Revelation was installed in 1995.
His Sculptural Wall on London Road Manchester – an integral part of Fairhurst’s UMIST scheme, is Grade II listed.
His concrete panels clad two opposing sides of the Faraday Tower which can also be seen on the UMIST site.
I discovered further reference to his work in an old copy of Studio International – serendipitously purchased from a local charity shop.
So I bided my time, awaiting the day I could take the train to Huyton, walk along Bluebell Lane, across the busy dual carriageway to Primrose Drive.
My patience was rewarded – 7,000 square feet of cast concrete retaining wall, surrounding the tower blocks, built on a site raised above the roads.
In 1987 the wall was open to public access – one of the three tower blocks has been subsequently demolished.
Partially covered with greenery and now securely contained within spiked railings, I circumnavigated the site catching and snapping the structure where I could – here are those very snaps.
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Hello. Thank you for posting this. I wonder if you might have any other info on this artist, like maybe in the article you mention from the old copy of Studio International (or other). I have a small sculpture that appears to be signed T. Holloway and I want to compare styles. It is a bust of a young woman, dated 1969, done in a classical portrait/realism style. Thanks!
~ Tim
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Hi Tim I’ve never ever seen any off his work in a r=traditional representative mode – I am know expert, this piece may be his work.
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Thanks!
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I live nearby to the Huyton Wall and marvel at it every time I pass (daily). Such a beautiful piece of 1960’s ‘modernism’. Sadly, it has become rather neglected in recent years. The ivy covering is not helping and there are signs that the steel rods inside the concrete are rusting and bursting through.
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