Emily Young
WIND HEAD, 2013
mountain clastic onyx
75cm
AMIATA WARRIOR, 2012
Onyx
70 x 30 x 50 cm
STILLDANCER II, 2019
Dolomitic Limestone
60 x 45 x 60 cam
As a young woman, she worked primarily as a painter, studying briefly at Chelsea School of Art and Central Saint Martins in London, and Stonybrook University, New York.
In the early 1980s she started carving in stone, preferring to use discarded materials from abandoned quarries.
The primary objective of her sculpture is to bring the relationship of humankind and the planet into closer conjunction, a relationship which has been occluded by millennia of fantasies about the nature of power and human autonomy.
Her preoccupation is our troubled relationship with the planet. In her combination of traditional carving skills allied with technology where necessary, she produces timeless works which marry the contemporary with the ancient, manifesting a unique, serious and poetic presence.
Young’s work is in important public and private collections throughout the world.