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Emily Young FRBS (born 1951) is a British sculptor, [1] who has been called "Britain's greatest living stone sculptor". [2] She was born in London into a family of artists, writers and politicians. She currently divides her time between studios in London and Italy. [3]

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Lunar Disc I, at Salisbury Cathedral, England Salisburycathedral0261.jpg
Lunar Disc I, at Salisbury Cathedral, England

Her mother was the writer and commentator Elizabeth Young, her father, Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, a politician, conservationist and writer. [4] Emily Young's paternal grandparents were the politician and writer Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet and the sculptor Kathleen Scott, the widow of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott. [5] Her uncle was the ornithologist, conservationist and painter, Sir Peter Scott, who founded the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust.[ citation needed ]

Emily Young received her secondary education at Putney High School, Holland Park School, Friends School Saffron Walden and the King Alfred School, London.[ citation needed ] First interested in painting, she spent her youth in London, Wiltshire and Italy before she attended the Chelsea School of Art for one term in 1968 and also studied at Saint Martin's School of Art. In the late 1960s and 1970s, she travelled widely, visiting Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, France and Italy, Africa and the Middle East. [5]

While at Holland Park School in 1966, she became a regular at the nearby London Free School night sessions in the Notting Hill area, which brought her into contact with many in the UK Underground. [6] She may have been the inspiration for the song "See Emily Play", written by Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett. [5] [4] [7]

During the 1970s and 1980s, she lived and worked with Simon Jeffes, leader of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and had one son, Arthur, born in 1978.[ citation needed ]

Work

Young's sculpture is held in many public as well as private collections. Some of her permanent installations can be seen in St Paul's Churchyard and Salisbury Cathedral. [8] Young's Lunar Disc 1 was installed at Loyola University Chicago in 2011. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Emily Young". Artnet. Retrieved 22 February 2007.
  2. ↑ Wullschlager, Jackie (1 September 2013). "Emily Young, We Are Stone's Children, Fine Art Society, London – review". Financial Times . Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Emily Young". Emily Young. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  4. 1 2 Chapman, Rob (2010). "Flicker Flicker Blam Blam Pow". Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head (Paperback ed.). London: Faber. pp.  93–94. ISBN   978-0-571-23855-2.
  5. 1 2 3 Tobin, Emily (20 May 2020). "Sculptor Emily Young's Tuscan Monastery". House & Garden. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  6. ↑ Barry Miles (2010), London Calling: A Countercultural History of London since 1945, p. 188.
  7. ↑ Chapman, Rob (2010). "Distorted View – See Through Baby Blue". Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head (Paperback ed.). London: Faber. p.  161.
  8. ↑ ""Emily Young – Sculptor", BBC Woman's Hour Arts Archive, 25 May 2007". Archived from the original on 18 December 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  9. ↑ Black, Ari (23 April 2015). "Where Did All of the Sculptures Come From?". Loyola Phoenix. Retrieved 23 March 2018.

11 artworks by or after Emily Young at the Art UK site

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