Emily Young

Emily Young FRBS (born 1951) is a British sculptor,{{cite web |last= |title=Emily Young |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/emily-young/ |access-date=2007-02-22 |website=Artnet}} who has been called "Britain's greatest living stone sculptor".{{cite news|last=Wullschlager |first=Jackie |url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/9f824000-1170-11e3-a14c-00144feabdc0.html |title=Emily Young, We Are Stone's Children, Fine Art Society, London – review |work=Financial Times |date=2013-09-01 |access-date=2014-01-06}} She was born in London into a family of artists, writers and politicians. She currently divides her time between studios in London and Italy.{{cite web |last= |first= |title=Emily Young |url=https://www.emilyyoung.com/about/ |access-date=5 April 2022 |website=Emily Young}}

Biography

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Her mother was the writer and commentator Elizabeth Young, her father, Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, a politician, conservationist and writer.{{cite book|last=Chapman|first=Rob|title=Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head|url=https://archive.org/details/sydbarrettveryir00chap|url-access=registration|year=2010|publisher=Faber|location=London|isbn=978-0-571-23855-2|edition=Paperback|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sydbarrettveryir00chap/page/93 93–94]|chapter=Flicker Flicker Blam Blam Pow}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Tobin |first=Emily |date=20 May 2020 |title=Sculptor Emily Young's Tuscan Monastery |url=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/emily-young |access-date=5 April 2022 |website=House & Garden}} Her uncle was the ornithologist, conservationist and painter, Sir Peter Scott, who founded the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

Emily Young received her secondary education at Putney High School, Holland Park School, Friends School Saffron Walden and the King Alfred School, London.{{cn|date=August 2024}} 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.

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.Barry Miles (2010), London Calling: A Countercultural History of London since 1945, p. 188. She may have been the inspiration for the song "See Emily Play", written by Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett.{{cite book |last=Chapman |first=Rob |title=Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head |url=https://archive.org/details/sydbarrettveryir00chap |url-access=registration |year=2010 |publisher=Faber |location=London |edition=Paperback |page=[https://archive.org/details/sydbarrettveryir00chap/page/161 161] |chapter=Distorted View – See Through Baby Blue|isbn=978-0-571-23854-5 }}

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.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

=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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_21_fri.shtml |title="Emily Young – Sculptor", BBC Woman's Hour Arts Archive, 25 May 2007. |access-date=2 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218012215/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_21_fri.shtml |archive-date=18 December 2018 |url-status=dead }} Young's Lunar Disc 1 was installed at Loyola University Chicago in 2011.{{Cite news |last=Black |first=Ari |date=2015-04-23 |title=Where Did All of the Sculptures Come From? |language=en-US |work=Loyola Phoenix |url=http://loyolaphoenix.com/2015/04/where-did-all-of-the-sculptures-come-from/ |access-date=2018-03-23}}

File:Warrior Poet by Emily Young 03.jpg|Warrior Poet, (2011), Victoria and Albert Museum

File:Emily Young à Paternoster Square.jpg|Angel I to IV, Paternoster Square, London

Archangel Michael, St Pancras New Church, London.JPG|Archangel Michael, St Pancras New Church, London