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 and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

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 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. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewis ...

, 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 pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...

. 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 South Thames Colleges Group (STCG) is a large further education institution operating four colleges in south-west London: South Thames College, Kingston College, Merton College, and Carshalton College. The four main campuses are in Wandsworth, ...

. 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 specialising in theatre, screen and performance art. It is located in Wimbledon and Merton Park, South West London. ...

, 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 public 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 ...

and at the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It o ...

under the supervision of

John Stezaker John Grenville Stezaker (born 1949) is a British conceptual artist. Biography and career Stezaker attended the Slade School of Art in London in his early teens, he graduated with a Higher Diploma in Fine Art in 1973. In the early 1970s, he was am ...

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 Paolozzi was born on 7 March ...

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

Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy. It was founded in the sixteenth century, but the present institution dates from the time of the unification of Italy and the capture of Rome by the Kingdom ...

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 public tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of shor ...

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 la ...

. 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 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, South Kensington, London. It ...

. 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 Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato. 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 numerous papers on Art and Psychoanalysis. 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 British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

, the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director ...

Archives, London, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the

Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities 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 FitzWilliam, 7th Vis ...

, Cambridge. International collections include the Brooklyn Museum,

The National Arts Club The National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and members club on Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1898 by Charles DeKay, an art and literary critic of the ''New York Times'' to "stimulate, foster, and promote public ...

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh are four museums that are operated by the Carnegie Institute headquartered in the Carnegie Institute complex in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Carnegie Institute complex, which includes th ...

, the Greek National Gallery, and the

Berlin State Museums The Berlin State Museums (german: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) are a group of institutions in Berlin, Germany, comprising seventeen museums in five clusters, several research institutes, libraries, and supporting facilities. They are overseen ...

. 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, London Bridge * 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 s ...

* 2006: 'Subject as Object' Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London * 2007: 'Relative Relations' Harrow Museum, London"Relative Relations" Book Launch Press Release 2008
/ref> * 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
(May,Jun) 'In the Mould of the Fathers' C2 Contemporanea,Florence, Italy
* 2014

* 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

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Place of death missing Sculptors from London

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