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Emily Young

Categories: Sculpture

Sculptor. Born London, grand-daughter of Kathleen Scott. Possibly the inspiration for the song 'See Emily Play', written by Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett. Her most visible work in London is the series of 5 heads on pillars in Paternoster Row, at the west end of St Pauls.

2019: The Evening Standard reported that one of her heads was being fought over.

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Emily Young

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Bombs 7/7/05 - St Pancras church sculpture

Seeing as how this face has only one eye, and it's closed, the quotation seem...

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Active 1989.  We have also seen his name as 'Petersen'.

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