Jocelyn Horner (1902 – January 1973) was a British sculptor and teacher.

Biography

Horner was born at Green Hayes in

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, where she spent most of her life. She attended Halifax High School and Grovelly Manor in Bournemouth. In 1920 she enrolled at the

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to train as a sculptor and was a student alongside both

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and

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. While still a student she began a series of animal studies and children's portraits. During World War II she worked as a home teacher for blind people in Halifax and also served as a

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nurse. When the War ended she returned to Leeds as a student and in the early 1950s took a number of part-time teaching posts. Horner taught modelling and wood carving at Percival Whitley College and also taught at Halifax Art College. In the 1960s Horner's work, which was greatly influenced by that of

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was exhibited both locally in Yorkshire and at national venues. She won the Leeds Gold Medal for Yorkshire artists in 1951 and had a number of high-profile commissions. These included a bronze group sculpture of the three Brontë sisters for the

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and a bust and hands sculpture of Sir

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for the Hallé Concert Society in Manchester. Her ''Head of a Blind Man'' is held at the London Headquarters of the

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holds examples of her work and a memorial show was held at the Stable Court Galleries at

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near Leeds. In 2013 a

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was unveiled on the house in Green Hayes where Horner was born and died.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Horner, Jocelyn 1902 births 1973 deaths 20th-century British sculptors 20th-century English women artists Alumni of Leeds Arts University English women sculptors British modern sculptors People from Halifax, West Yorkshire 20th-century British women sculptors