Granite: 3x4x3ft 1.00 tons. Location: St. John’s Church,Princes Street, Edinburgh. Gifted.
This monumental hand of Christ with the stigmata portrays the hand that suffered on the Cross. The theme of suffering not only features in many of Rae’s sculptures but also in his drawings of Inmates and Down and Outs. Rae donated this sculpture to St. John’s Church.
Granite: 4x5x3ft 2.00 tons. Location: Almond Valley Heritage Centre, Livingston. Sold.
Rae has made several animal drawings. This was his first animal sculpture, of which many more would follow.
The Sheep sculpture was exhibited at the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 and afterwards auctioned by Christie’s and purchased by Livingston Development Corporation for the entrance to the Almond Valley Heritage Centre.
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.
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.