Account of Winston Churchill’s meeting with the sculptor Oscar Nemon in 1951 and the installation seventy years later of Oxford’s first public bronze of Churchill by Nemon in the Old Parsonage Hotel.
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Humanity returning to Pleasant Land 80 years after Yugoslavia was invaded in 1941.
‘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 […]
Talk by Aurelia Young on ‘Finding Nemon’ at Norwich Cathedral
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 […]
Oscar Nemon in Oxford during the 1940s.
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 hardback copies of her book for £20 + P&P. (£3.50 for the UK, £10 for international postage), and softback copies of Finding Nemon for £14 + P&P (£3 for the UK and £9 for international postage). […]
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. […]