Alison Holt
Bio
Alison Holt is a contemporary UK textile artist with a Fine Art Embroidery BA Hons degree from Goldsmiths College, London, specialising in freehand machine embroidery.
Using a basic Bernina sewing machine and just 2 stitches, straight stitch and zig-zag Alison makes embroidered pictures of landscapes, seascapes, flowers and garden scenes, influenced by the Shropshire Wales border near Oswestry where I live and by my travels.
Alison regularly exhibits internationally and is a regular exhibitor at the Chelsea Flower Show in London and other venues in Europe and Australasia.
Using a basic Bernina sewing machine and just 2 stitches, straight stitch and zig-zag Alison makes embroidered pictures of landscapes, seascapes, flowers and garden scenes, influenced by the Shropshire Wales border near Oswestry where I live and by my travels.
Alison regularly exhibits internationally and is a regular exhibitor at the Chelsea Flower Show in London and other venues in Europe and Australasia.
CV
EDUCATION
1976- Foundation Course at Shrewsbury School
- Fine Art Embroidery at Goldsmiths College, London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019- Boyd Dunlop Gallery, Napier New Zealand
- Gallery76 Concorde West Sydney Australia
- Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition
- Stitch - Daniel Raphael Gallery, London
- Boyd Dunlop Gallery, Napier New Zealand
- Chelsea Flower Show
- Willow Gallery Summer Exhibition, Oswestry, Shropshire
- Embroiderers Guild Capability Brown Festival
- Textile Prague, Slovansky dum, Na Prikope 22, Prague
MACHINE EMBROIDERY BOOKS
Books published by Alison Holt- 'Plants and Flowers in Machine Embroidery,' published by Batsford in 1990
- 'Machine Embroidered Landscapes,' published by Search Press in 2002
- 'Machine Embroidered Flowers' also published by Search Press in 2006
- 'Machine Embroidered Woodlands', published 2009
- 'Seascapes,' published in 2012
