Lady Aurelia Young
Oscar Nemon, Part 2: Churchill’s Sculptor
Summary
The second part of a deeply personal and fascinating lecture on the renowned Jewish sculptor Oscar Nemon (1906–1985) by his daughter, Lady Aurelia Young.
Lady Aurelia Young
Aurelia Young is the author of Finding Nemon: The Extraordinary Life of the Outsider Who Sculpted the Famous (2019), the first biography of her father, the renowned sculptor Oscar Nemon. She grew up wandering in and out of her father’s studios at the family home in Oxford and later in London. Since his death in 1985, she has been researching her father’s life and gives talks about his life and work in the US, Paris, Brussels, Israel, and across the UK. She married George Young in 1964, an MP for forty-one years and now Lord Young of Cookham.
He certainly did feel his Jewish identity. Because he felt always felt excluded both in, well probably in Vienna and then when in Brussels and then in England. So he was very aware of his Jewish identity.
Well I’d been giving talks about my father’s life to various groups of art groups and things because I did, because somebody asked me to give a group the Boars Hills society asked me to give a talk. And from that I gave more talks and then at every talk somebody said, “Is there a book about Nemon?” So I thought there should be, and I wrote one. But to anybody you’d like a talk, here I am and I’ve given lots of talks in America and in Paris and Brussels and Israel.