14 Facts About Alvin Marriott

Alvin Marriott worked in Europe, North and Central America, and Jamaica.

Alvin Marriott's mother was a playwright and musician and his father a farmer and maker of straw goods.

Alvin Marriott gained travel experience, going to Panama to do carpentry in 1940 and then to the US in 1944 as a farmworker, where his artistic skills were celebrated locally and he did a bust of president Franklin D Roosevelt.

Alvin Marriott received a scholarship from the British Council in 1947 to enrol at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London for his first-ever formal artistic training.

Alvin Marriott was retained as a lecturer the following academic year.

Alvin Marriott then began work on carvings for the restoration of the UK Houses of Parliament to replace the wartime bomb damage.

Alvin Marriott created Jamaica's coronation gift for Queen Elizabeth II, a carved wooden tray.

Alvin Marriott taught at the Jamaica School of Arts and Crafts.

Alvin Marriott left for England to sculpt the statue "Athlete" based on Jamaica's first Olympic gold medallist, Arthur Wint.

Alvin Marriott was employed as the chief of architectural embellishments for builder AD Scott Ltd.

Alvin Marriott completed busts of the Jamaican National Heroes prime minister Alexander Bustamante, pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey and premier Norman Manley, as well as Governor-General Sir Clifford Campbell and leading supporter of Jamaican sports Sir Herbert Macdonald.

Alvin Marriott was awarded a gold Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica in 1970.

Alvin Marriott travelled once more to the UK to work on the project in Vauxhall, south London.

Alvin Marriott died in Miami Florida, USA, on 20 September 1992.