‘Humanity’, Oscar Nemon’s Holocaust Memorial, returning to Pleasant Land – 80 years after the invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. Eighty years ago, in 1941, the world was caught up into the struggle of World War II. With America still neutral, and France already having surrendered to the Nazi, the Third […]
Finding Nemon – A talk on the sculptor Oscar Nemon 20 February 2020 14:30 – 15:30 Weston Room Nemon’s daughter, Aurelia Young, will be giving an illustrated talk about her father Oscar Nemon, and her own adventures while researching ‘Finding Nemon’. She will tell how her father travelled across Europe […]
Autumn is always a time of old memories and new beginnings at Oscar Nemon’s Sculpture Studio Museum and Archive at Pleasant Land. The trees of Boars Hill, an area of fields and woods between Oxford and Abingdon, shade the forested sections with bands of gold, flame, and russet. For […]
Aurelia Young, Nemon’s daughter and the author of the new biography Finding Nemon, gave a sold out talk at 1pm on December 6th at Waterstone’s, Gower Street. She shared her recollections of Nemon’s life, how The Queen nicknamed him the ‘missing Oscar’ and how Nemon became the subject of the only […]
As part of the Oxford Leider Festival, Alice Hiller, who curates Oscar Nemon’s Archive, and installed the display at his Studio Museum on Boars Hill, will be speaking about his journeys across Europe, and how his sculptures hold both the music, and the silences, of the complex times in which […]
Aurelia Young, Nemon’s daughter and author of the new biography Finding Nemon, is selling signed copies of her book for £20 + postage and packing. (£3 for the UK, £9 for international postage). As a special offer for website customers, Aurelia will be get in touch with each customer to offer […]
Aurelia Young launches ‘Finding Nemon’ her biography of her father the sculptor Oscar Nemon at the sculptor’s former studio on Boars Hill near Oxford.
Ten years to research, sculptor Oscar Nemon’s daughter Aurelia Young will launch Finding Nemon at the Nemon Museum on Boars Hill – where he sculpted for forty years. The biography, which tells the story of Nemon’s private and public lives, took Aurelia all over the world. Trailing her father, she travelled from North […]
In case you can’t make October’s talk at the Freud Museum in London, Aurelia Young will be giving another illustrated talk on 1 November at Jock Colville Hall, Churchill College Cambridge, as part of the Churchill History Lecture Series. This talk, which starts at 17:30 is also free, and no booking is required. […]
Oscar Nemon’s daughter, Lady Aurelia Young, will be giving an illustrated talk at the Freud Museum in London, at 6:30pm on the 16th October. The talk is entitled ‘Freud’s Sculptor: The Life and Works of Oscar Nemon’. Tickets are available for £11 (£9 concessions) and can be booked here: https://www.freud.org.uk/event/freuds-sculptor-the-life-and-works-of-oscar-nemon/. The […]