Hew Lorimer

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Our Lady of the Isles on South Uist.
Figures on the National Library of Scotland

Hew Martin Lorimer, OBE (22 May 1907 – 1 September 1993) was a Scottish sculptor.

Early life

He was born in

stonemason Eric Gill.[2]

Sculptor

The font at St Machar's Cathedral by Hew Lorimer

Lorimer was principally an

mother and child sited at Rueval on South Uist
.

Between 1950 and 1955 he also sculpted the artwork adorning the

direct carving.[3] Also for Fairlie, Lorimer created a massive tympanum frieze showing St Francis returning to Assisi for The Friary in Dundee in 1959.[4]

Crucifix on exterior east wall of St Martin and St Ninian Church, Whithorn (1959). Has suffered some damage and loss of detail after a botched cleaning job in 1987.

A statue of St Meddan in niche above the main entrance to Our Lady of the Assumption and St Meddan's Church in Troon.

The font of St Machar's Cathedral (1954).

One of Lorimer's final public commissions was the statue of Christ on the Cross for the University of Dundee Chaplaincy (1983, completed in 1986).[5]

Honours

He was awarded an

OBE
in 1986 for services to architecture and conservation.

Published works

  • The Lorimers, a family of the arts in Fife: an exhibition for the 1983 St. Andrews Festival. Crawford Centre for the Arts. 1983. .

Personal life

Hew was the nephew of the Scottish painter John Henry Lorimer[2] and the grandson of Prof. James Lorimer, lawyer and academic.[6] Lorimer lived in Kellie Castle in Fife, and died in a nursing home in St Andrews in 1993. He is survived by his sons, Robert and Henry, and daughter, Monica.

The castle is owned today by the National Trust for Scotland who maintain a changing exhibition of his works plus those of his father, Robert Lorimer, and his uncle, the painter John Henry Lorimer.

References

  1. ^ Kemp 2006, pp. 52–67.
  2. ^ a b c Chilvers & Glaves-Smith 2009, p. 414.
  3. ^ "Upward - Onward | Sculpture". Upward - Onward | The Art of Family. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Church Tympanum | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Christ on the Cross | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  6. ^ Blackden 1987, p. p=6.

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