Jane McAdam Freud

Jane McAdam Freud
Born (1958-02-24)24 February 1958
London
Nationality British
Education
Known for Painting, drawing

Jane McAdam Freud FRBS (born 24 February 1958) is a British sculptor working in Installation art and digital media. She was the winner of the 2014 European Trebbia Awards for artistic achievement.

Biography

McAdam Freud was born in London to Katherine Margaret McAdam and Lucian Freud and she is the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. 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.[1] After completing a Foundation course at Wimbledon College of Art, McAdam Freud studied Mosaics in Ravenna from 1977 to 1978 returning to London to study at the Central School of Art and Design and at the Royal College of Art under the supervision of John Stezaker and Eduardo Paolozzi.[2]

In 1986 McAdam Freud won the British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome where she studied sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma[3] under Gino Marotta[4][5] and at the Scuola d'Arte della Medaglia.[6] McAdam Freud is an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins and teaches short courses in the Sculpture School at Morley College. She has also taught at the Royal College of Art, London and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

McAdam Freud is a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. In 1991 she was awarded the Italian State Mint prize for her work Moments and Memories.[7] Her winning design was put into production by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato.[8] In the same year she was granted the Freedom of the City of London.[9] She has published several catalogues including; On the Edge 1996,[10][11] Relative Relations 2006 [12][13] and numerous papers on Art and Psychoanalysis.[14]

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. Great similarities can be found in the forms and motifs of the pairs. At a midway point 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 internationally 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 both national and international public collections including the British Museum, the National Gallery Archives, London, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. International collections include the Brooklyn Museum, The National Arts Club, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the Greek National Gallery, and the Berlin State Museums.

Solo exhibitions

Full list of screening venues

See also

References

  1. ↑ Inspirational Woman - Asha Centre
  2. ↑ Royal College of Art, London
  3. ↑ Jane McAdam Freud FRBS MA (RCA): Royal British Society of Sculptors
  4. ↑ Gino Marotta - E' morto Gino Marotta gigante dell'arte del '900
  5. ↑ Gino Marotta - official website
  6. ↑ Scuola d'Arte della Medaglia
  7. ↑ Scuola d'Arte della Medaglia
  8. ↑ Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato
  9. ↑ Simon Hattenstone (18 January 2012). "Jane McAdam Freud: a farewell to my father". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Sculpture - On the Edge
  11. ↑ Sculpture - On the Edge
  12. ↑ Relative Relations
  13. ↑ Relative Relations
  14. ↑ Jane McAdam Freud Official Website
  15. ↑ Charlotte Cripps (19 January 2012). "Jane McAdam Freud: 'How my sculpture of my father, Lucian helped me cope with his death'". The Independent. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  16. ↑ Penelope Andrew (18 January 2011). "The Freud(ian)s: Inspired by Sigmund's Passion for Antiquities, Jane Debuts Own Paradigms of the Unconscious". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  17. ↑ Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
  18. ↑ "Relative Relations" Book Launch Press Release 2008
  19. ↑ Morton, Thomas Article: Jane McAdam Freud "Relative Relations" at The Freud Museum 27 September 2006. Culture24. Accessed 26 November 2009
  20. ↑ Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide
  21. ↑ The Ashmolean Museum
  22. ↑ Jane McAdam Freud at The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis

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