Granite: 6x9x3ft 5.00 tonnes. Location: Shropshire. Sold to The Jerwood Foundation.
Not only a study of old age, this sculpture expresses the grief and the loneliness of widowhood.
It was carved with hand tools over a period of 9 months. The 5 tonne boulder of Creetown granite has been isotopically dated at 391 million years old.
Purchased from the Regent’s Park Exhibition by the Jerwood Foundation.
Granite: 2x4x3ft 1 tonne. Location: Wetherspoon’s Granite City Restaurant, Aberdeen Airport. Sold.
Carved from a boulder of Kemnay silver-grey granite, Rae wanted this sculpture to look as if it had been carved by the wind giving it a primeaval quality.
It is an appropriate subject for the restaurant as wild boar often featured on Pictish and Celtic stones being a symbol of hospitality and feasting. The sculpture is sited in the new beer garden where it is a talking point for visitors.
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.