Jane McAdam Freud (24 February 1958 – 9 August 2022) was a British conceptual sculptor working in

installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific art, site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior intervent ...

and

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. She was the winner of the 2014 European Trebbia Awards for artistic achievement.

Life and work

McAdam Freud was born in London to Katherine Margaret McAdam and

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. His early career as a painter was inf ...

, and was the great-granddaughter of

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( ; ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies seen as originating fro ...

. Her career began with a solo show at the age of 18, curated by her art teachers at Putney College, which is now part of South Thames College. After completing a Foundation course at

Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Arts, formerly Wimbledon School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art university in London, England. The college specialises in theatre, screen and performance arts and design ...

, McAdam Freud studied Mosaics in Ravenna from 1977 to 1978, returning to London to study at the

Central School of Art and Design The Central School of Art and Design was a school of fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School of Arts and Crafts. ...

and at the

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under the supervision of John Stezaker and

Eduardo Paolozzi Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (, ; 7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art. Early years Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was born on 7 M ...

. In 1986 McAdam Freud won the British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome where she studied sculpture at the

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under Gino Marotta and at the Scuola d'Arte della Medaglia in Rome. McAdam Freud was an associate lecturer at

Central Saint Martins Central Saint Martins is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art university in London, England. The college offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of short ...

and taught short courses in the Sculpture School at

Morley College Morley College is a specialist adult education and further education college in London, England. The college has three main campuses, one in Waterloo on the South Bank, and two in West London namely in North Kensington and in Chelsea, the ...

. She has also taught at the

, London and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. McAdam Freud was a

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of the

Royal British Society of Sculptors The Royal Society of Sculptors (RSS) is a British charity established in 1905, which promotes excellence in the art and practice of sculpture. Its headquarters are a centre for contemporary sculpture on Old Brompton Road in South Kensington, Lo ...

. In 1991 she was awarded the Italian State Mint prize for her work ''Moments and Memories''; her winning design was put into production by the

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. In the same year she was granted the Freedom of the City of London. She has published several catalogues including; ''On the Edge'' (1996), ''Relative Relations'' (2006) and papers on art and Ppychoanalysis. McAdam Freud's short film ''Dead or Alive'' refers to Freud's concept of Condensation. The pairings morph into each other through the merging back and forth of Freud's antiquities with her sculpture, from past to present 'virtually' closing the gap of time. At midway the two objects merge and form a third image of a 'virtual object. Her preference for this work was to locate it within reach of a psychoanalytically aware audience. ''Dead or Alive'' was shown at museums, institutes and galleries including Philoctetes Centre for the Imagination, NY, New York USA in 2008, Lung Yingtai Cultural Foundation, (Media Tek Lectures) Taipei, Taiwan and the Kosciuszko Foundation, NYC, USA in 2009. Also the Sundaram Tagore Gallery, LA, USA in 2010 and Whitelabs Gallery, Milan in 2012. Her works are represented in public collections including the

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, the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...

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Archives, London, the

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, Oxford and the

Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities University museum, museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard ...

, Cambridge. International collections include the

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, The National Arts Club,

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a nonprofit organization that operates four museums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The organization is headquartered in the Carnegie Institute and Library complex in the Oakland neighborhood of Pitts ...

, the Greek National Gallery, and the

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. McAdam Freud lived in northwest London at the time of her death, and was married to architect Peter Henson. She died on 9 August 2022, aged 64; no cause was given.

Solo exhibitions

* 1996: Yorkshire Museum, York * 1997: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge * 1997: Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland * 1998: Simmons Gallery, Bloomsbury, London * 1998: Marishal Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland * 1999: Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA * 2000: Das Norske Veritas,

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* 2001: 'Resonating' The Gallery, University College Cork * 2004: 'Give and Take' Ashmolean Museum, Oxford * 2006: 'We Do' Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide, Australia * 2006: 'Relative Relations'

Freud Museum The Freud Museum in London is a museum dedicated to Sigmund Freud, located in the house where Freud lived with his family during the last year of his life. In 1938, after escaping Nazi annexation of Austria he came to London via Paris and ...

* 2006: 'Subject as Object' Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London * 2007: 'Relative Relations' Harrow Museum, London * 2007: 'Relative Reflections' Muzeum Novojičínska, Pribor, Czech Republic * 2009: 'Repetitions' New York Psychoanalytic Society, NYC, USA * 2009: 'Other Side' Harrow and Wembley Progressive Synagogue * 2009: 'Repetitions' Kosciuszko Foundation NYC, USA * 2009–10: 'Conceptual Sculpture' London Centre for Psychotherapy * 2010: 'StoneSpeak' Freud Museum, London * 2010: 'Freud on Freud' New Center of Psychoanalysis in LA, USA * 2010: 'Random' Sundaram Tagore Gallery, LA, USA * 2010: 'War Works' Centre for Jewish Culture, Kraków, Poland * 2011: 'Random Plus' Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York * 2011: 'Hinged' Freud Museum of Dreams, St. Petersburg, Russia * 2011: 'HiStory' Austria General Consulate Gallery, Cracow, Poland] * 2012: 'Lucian Freud My Father' Freud Museum, London. * 2012: 'Family Matters' Gazelli Art House, London, UK * 2012: 'Flesh and Stone' New School House Gallery, York, UK * 2012: '3 Generations' Whitelabs Gallery, Milan, Italy * 2013: 'Family Matters' Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan * 2013: 'Taking Care' Palazzo Tagliaferro, Andora, Italy * 2013: 'Dreaming and Doing' Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow * 2014: 'Painted Earth' Harrow Arts Centre, London * 2014: 'In My Own Image – Ill Fit' British Psychotherapy Foundation, London * 2014 'In the Mould of the Fathers' C2 Contemporanea, Florence, Italy * 2014: 'On Identity', Gallery Martini Ronchetti, Genoa, Italy * 2014: 'Parallels' 2 man show with photographer Frank Dabba Smith at The Priory, Roehampton, London * 2014: 'Dance of Disapproval' Anna Pavlova House, London * 2015: 'Mother Mould', Gazelli Art House, Mayfair, London * 2015–16: Wooyang Art Museum, Gyeongju-si, South Korea Retrospective * 2017: TIMH, NY Psychoanalytic Association – small works display * 2017: 'Object Authority' Pasmore Gallery, Harrow School, London * 2017: 'Recent works', C2 Contemporary – Di Pinto, Florence, Italy * 2017: Societe Psychanalytique de Paris, Lyon, France, exhibition and presentation * 2017: Symposium and Exhibition with works by Claudio Costa, Silesiun Uni. of Mestre, Vencice, Italy * 2017: Museum of Modern Art, Ascona, Lugano, Switzerland – Group exhibition * 2017–18: 'Object' Fix Me in Your Turquoise Gaze', Gazelli Art House, London * 2017–18: 'Freud Study Merge', CE Contemporary, Milan, Italy * 2018: Jekza Gallery, Timișoara, Romania * 2018: Oradea City Museum, Oradea, Romania * 2019: Palazzo Tagliaferro, Andora, Italy * 2019: Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy * 2019: Museo Attivoa Claudia Costa, Quarto, Genoa, Italy * 2019: Spatui Intact, Cluj, Romania * 2020: Headstone Manor Museum, Harrow, London * 2020: Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan * 2021–22: Installation, Freud Birth House, Pribor, CZ

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Royal British Society of Sculptors
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Life and work

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