Jane McAdam Freud

British conceptual sculptor (1958–2022)

Known for

Conceptual sculpture
installation

SpousePeter HensonParent

Lucian Freud (father)

RelativesSigmund Freud (great-grandfather)

Jane McAdam Freud FRBS (24 February 1958 – 9 August 2022) was a British conceptual sculptor working in installation art and digital media. 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, and was 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 and at the Scuola d'Arte della Medaglia in Rome. McAdam Freud was an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins and taught 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 was 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.^[4] Her winning design was put into production by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato.^[5] In the same year she was granted the Freedom of the City of London.^[6] She has published several catalogues including; On the Edge 1996,^[7]^[8] Relative Relations 2006 ^[9]^[10] and numerous papers on Art and Psychoanalysis.^[11]

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 Victoria and Albert Museum, 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.

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.^[12]

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^[13]
2000: Das Norske Veritas, London Bridge
2001: 'Resonating' The Gallery, University College Cork
2004: 'Give and Take' Ashmolean Museum, Oxford^[14]
2006: 'We Do' Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide, Australia^[15]
2006: 'Relative Relations' Freud Museum^[16]
2006: 'Subject as Object' Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London
2007: 'Relative Relations' Harrow Museum, London^[17]^[18]
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^[19]
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.^[20]
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: (May,Jun) '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

The most recent screening venues are·· the Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art in 2015–16 and at NYU, New York USA in March 2017.

Screening venues include

2006: Freud Museum, London
2007: Harrow Museum, London
2007: German Psychoanalytic Society, Berlin
2007: Florence Biennale, Italy
2007: Muzeum Novojicinska, Pribor, Czech Republic
2007: Waterstones Bookstore, Harrow on the Hill, London
2008: Royal College of Art Cross Currents #3 event
2008: Fourth International Symposium Psychoanalysis and Art, Florence, Italy
2008: Philoctetes Centre for the Imagination, NY, New York USA
2009: NYSPI New York Psychoanalytic Society, New York, NY, USA
2009: Medailia Rack and Hamper Gallery, NY, New York USA
2009: Lung Yingtai Cultural Foundation, (Media Tek Lectures) Taipei, Taiwan
2009: Shifan University, Kaohsiung, South Taiwan Org. by the Goethe Institute, Taipei
2009: Kosciuszko Foundation, NYC, USA
2009: National Arts Club, NYC, USA
2010: New Center for Psychoanalysis in LA, USA
2010: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, LA, USA
2011: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, NY, USA
2011: Psycause Conference, Pribor, Czech Republic
2012: Three Generations, Milan, Italy
2013: Family Matters, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan
2014: On Identity, Gallery Martini Ronchetti, Genoa, Italy,
2015–16: Wooyang Art Museum, Gyeongju-si, South Korea Retrospective
2017: C2 Contemporary – Di Pinto, Florence, Italy
2017: Human, German Embassy, Belgravia, London
2017: Societe Psychanalytique de Paris, Lyon, France,
2017. Museum of Modern Art, Ascona, Lugano, Switzerland
2017: Freud Study Merge, CE Contemporary, Milan
2018: IEA Institute for Expressive Analysis, NY, USA
2021–22: Freud Birth House, Pribor, CZ

References

^ Inspirational Woman – Asha Centre
^ Royal College of Art, London
^ Jane McAdam Freud FRBS MA (RCA): Royal British Society of Sculptors
^ Scuola d'Arte della Medaglia
^ Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato
^ Simon Hattenstone (18 January 2012). "Jane McAdam Freud: a farewell to my father". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
^ Sculpture – On the Edge
^ Sculpture – On the Edge
^ Relative Relations
^ Relative Relations
^ Jane McAdam Freud Official Website
^ "Jane McAdam Freud obituary". The Times. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
^ Jane McAdam Freud at The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis
^ The Ashmolean Museum
^ Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide
^ Morton, Thomas Article: Jane McAdam Freud "Relative Relations" at The Freud Museum 27 September 2006. Culture24. Accessed 26 November 2009
^ Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
^ "Relative Relations" Book Launch Press Release 2008
^ 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.
^ 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.