Granite: 7x3x3ft 3.00 tons. Location: Carsluith, Wigtownshire. Sold
Lazarus was carved out of an ancient standing stone linking Celtic and Christian beliefs.
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Flight into Egypt
Granite: 6x6x3ft. 4.00 tons. Location: The Falkirk Wheel. For Sale.
Flight into Egypt
This sculpture is titled after the Holy Family showing Mary holding baby Jesus with Joseph at the other side of the stone. It is also a metaphor for all families who are dispossessed today. A mother tenderly holds her child in her arms while the father at the other side of the stone protects them. His naked torso depicts their vulnerability.
Ronald Rae at The Falkirk Wheel
To see more footage of Ronald Rae with his sculptures at The Falkirk Wheel go to the right margin of this page and under Latest News on Video, click Ronald Rae at his Falkirk Wheel Exhibition Part One, Two and Three.
Boy with Calf
Granite: 4x9x5ft. 5.00 tons. Location: The Falkirk Wheel. For Sale. Photo in the Queen’s Garden, Holyrood Park Exhibition.
Boy with Calf
A poetic and dynamic work of a boy leaning over a calf. On the other side of the stone he pulls a blanket up to his face, perhaps in remorse for the past. Rae does not plan his sculptures – he just carves what is within each stone. He says it is a mystery.
Carved in Creetown silver-grey granite which is 391 million years old.
Ronald Rae at The Falkirk Wheel
To see more footage of Ronald Rae with his sculptures at The Falkirk Wheel go to the right margin of this page and under Latest News on Video, click Ronald Rae at his Falkirk Wheel Exhibition Part One, Two and Three.
Wounded Elephant
Granite: 9x10x6ft 12.00 tons. Location: Private Collection. Oxon. Sold.
Wounded Elephant
When Rae found this stone in Kemnay Quarry in Aberdeenshire, he knew straight away it would be an elephant. It is significant that the drill hole in the stone is where the tusk would have been, also that a pink striation in the stone runs down from the eye suggesting a tear.
This work is Rae’s direct response to the plight of the African elephant.
St Kilda Wake
Granite: 5x5x3ft 3.00 tons. Location: Private Collection. Aberdeenshire. Sold.
St Kilda Wake
This sculpture of four monumental portrait heads stands as a memorial to the people of St.Kilda who became dispossessed when they could no longer survive on their remote island off the west coast of Scotland. The head of the elderly man was based on Rae’s grandfather.
John the Baptist
Creetown Granite: 7x7x3ft 4.00 tons. Location: In private collection. Oxon. Sold.
John the Baptist
Carved in silver-grey Creetown granite from the Solway Firth in Scotland, the sculpture depicts the monumental severed head of the biblical prophet. The scar on the cheek represents his pain. John the Baptist was purchased from the exhibition in Regent’s Park, London in 2002.
Mother and Child
Granite: 5x4x3ft 2.00 tons. Location – The Falkirk Wheel. For Sale.
Mother and Child
Carved in a beautiful pink granite from Corrennie quarry in Aberdeenshire the stone is 460 million years old. This gentle work epitomises motherhood, the mother bent over her child like a protective shield. It is interesting to note that when it rains the baby’s head doesn’t get wet.
This sculpture has been on private loan for the past two years. It is once again available.
Ronald Rae at The Falkirk Wheel
To see more footage of Ronald Rae with his sculptures at The Falkirk Wheel go to the right margin of this page and under Latest News on Video, click Ronald Rae at his Falkirk Wheel Exhibition Part One, Two and Three.
Animals in War Memorial
Granite: 5x11x3ft. 5.00 tons. Location: Campbell Park, Milton Keynes. Unveiled by Charles Saumarez Smith CBE Director of the Royal Academy on 30th July 2015. Gifted by the sculptor to the people of Milton Keynes in memory of Edna Egochi Read 1929- 2012, artist and pacifist and active promoter of public art in Milton Keynes.
Animals in War Memorial
This poignant memorial is a requiem for all the animals that have died in wars, in particular horses that died in their millions in World War 1. The soldier in the sculpture with half an arm missing and wearing a gas mask is also a reference to the horrors of chemical warfare.
War Veteran
Granite: 5x5x3ft 3.00 tons. Location: Campbell Park, Milton Keynes – On exhibition. For Sale.
This life-size sculpture of a land mine victim depicts the human cost of war based on Rae’s grandfather who fought in the Battle of the Somme. The sculpture featured in the Landmine Exhibition at Leeds Royal Armouries which was dedicated to the work of Princess Diana.
Photo of sculpture from the Ronald Rae Sculpture Exhibition at Holyrood Park, Edinburgh.
Granite Birth by Rowena M Love
Granite Birth by Rowena M Love
for Ronald Rae
Art and faith mate to make sculpture
from blushing Corrennie granite.
Sweaty effort of conception,
rhythmic chisel, panted breath,
labour’s pain soon forgotten
in tonnes of stunning beauty born.
Swaddled with shadows and ideologies,
breastfed on dreams,
each statue cries to be heard.