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 […]
2018 talk 6 December – Waterstone’s, Gower Street
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 […]
Sculpture as Music and Silence – Ashmolean Museum Talk on Oscar Nemon 11.00 18 October.
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 […]
SIGNED COPIES of ‘Finding Nemon’
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’ at Pleasant Land on Boars Hill on a beautiful September afternoon.
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.
Celebrate the launch of ‘Finding Nemon’ by Aurelia Young with tea, cake and live music 15 September 2-5 at Pleasant Land on Boars Hill, 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 […]
Upcoming talks – Saxmundham and Cambridge
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. […]
Upcoming Talk – 16 October – Freud Museum London
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 […]
Oscar Nemon Bronze Freud for Vienna
Nearly eighty years after Sigmund Freud left Vienna for the last time in 1938, to seek refuge in London, fund-raising is underway for an Austrian partner to the bronze seated figure of Freud in Hampstead. The statue will be sited in a garden space at Vienna Medical University, where Freud […]
Oscar Nemon Bust of Sir Winston Churchill presented to John Major by the International Churchill Society
The Sir Winston Churchill Award 2017 was presented to The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH. The dinner is a celebration of the charitable work of The International Churchill Society (UK) and was attended by members of the Churchill family, the Trustees and Patrons of the Society and their guests, and […]