jane mcadam freud

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Jane McAdam Freud an acclaimed British sculptor, winner of the European Trebbia Awards for achievement in the arts 2014, is represented in the major public collections at home and abroad. She studied at Royal College of Art, London under the supervision of John Stezeker and Edwardo Paolozzi.
She exhibits in galleries and museums in the UK, Europe, Taipei, the USA and Russia and focuses on the meeting of Art and Psychoanalysis. Venues include the Freud Museum of Dreams in St. Petersburg, Russia and the Austrian General Consulate Gallery in Krakow, Palazzo Tagliaferrro, Andora, Italy, Gazelli Art House, Mayfair and Baku and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow.
Examples of Jane’s works can be seen on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum (Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Gallery), or by appointment at the British Museum or by appointment.
We are lucky to get these pieces since she normally only does one man shows.
I work at the edges where art and psychoanalysis meet.
examining conflicting or contrasting sides of subjects and objects both formally and philosophically.
I play with ideas and language with an interdisciplinary approach.
Sculptures by jane mcadam freud
Credentials
Qualifications
Royal Academy Castings Course (Sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Founders)
Royal College of Art, London (MA RCA)
Central St. Martins, London (BA Hons)
British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome
Fellow of the Royal British Sculpture Society
Freedom of the City of London.,Royal Academy Castings Course (Sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Founders)
Royal College of Art, London (MA RCA)
Central St. Martins, London (BA Hons)
British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome
Fellow of the Royal British Sculpture Society
Freedom of the City of London.Exhibitions
yes
Awards
RECENT AWARDS AND EVENTS
European Trebbia Awards 2014: Prague Castle, Czech Republic
British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome
British Council Travel Grant: Einstein and Picasso - Open Space Event
Freedom of the City of LondonPublications
PAPERS
2014 Paper: In the Mould of the Fathers 6th Int.Symposium of Psychoanalysis and Art, contrib.
2013 Paper: Lucian`s Last Legs Publication Symposium on Psychological Birth and Infant Deveopment, Pribor, Moravia Czech Rep.
2013 Paper: Saving Sigmund Essay for the Council for Assisting Accademic Refugees (Cara) auction catalogue
2012 Lucian`s Last Legs, Age and Creativity International Congress on Art and Psychology, Luca, Italy
2012 Paper: Beyond Earth Death Beyond Earth Death Freud Museum
2011 Paper: Beyond Art Death, Appearance, Reality and Beyond Conference History of Ideas dept. Jagiellonian University, Krakow
2011 Paper: HIStory- same old, new old, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, exhibition info, images
2011 Paper: Transformation, Aplimat 2011, Maths and Art, Slovak University, Bratislava
2010 Medals for Oxford University, Bams Conference, Ruskin School, Oxford
2010 Freud’s Medals, Fidems, Tampera, Finland
2010 Freud’s Medals, Middlesex University Conference (Art&Psychology)
2009 Old Dreams, New Interpretations, Goethe Inst. - German Cultural Centre in Taipei
2007 Concept, Comprehension and Completion` - an artist`s research journey,
2007 Conciliation and Estrangement: Symposium` org. by UNAM, Mexico City
2007 Inside Out Plaster Casting Conference- Worcester College, Oxford University
2005 Tokens or Treasure - an artists perspective, BAMS ConferencePUBLICATIONS
2014 interview : Lost Wax to Lost Fathers, Grief and Transcendence by Adele Tutter, pub by Routledge
2014 Psychology tomorrow magazine, Robert Frashure interview
2014 Paper: Lucian`s Last Legs Age and Creativity International Congress on Art and Psychology published papers
2013 Adelaide Damoah Art online interview
2012 Front Cover: La Lettura, Corriere della Sera, 9 September 2012
2011 Paper: Beyond Art Death, History of Ideas dept. Jagiellonian University, Krakow
2009 Buddha Head: Essay for Oriental Museum’s Treasures Catalogue, Durham University
2007 Relative Relations by Jane McAdam Freud ISBN 10 0-9529848-1-4 --REVIEW
2006 We Do- an invitation: exhibition catalogue, Adele Boeg Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2004 Give and Take- 21st century icons, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
1999 Resonating, Institute of Contemporary Art, (The Contemporary), St. Louise, MO, USA
1996 Sculpture -On the Edge by Jane McAdam Freud, ISBN 0 9529848 0 6PRESENTATIONS/ FILM SCREENINGS1
2012 Three Generations of the Freud Family, Sex, Psychology and Art, 4th Chichester Art Lecture, Minerva Theatre, Chichester,INFO
2012 Panel Speaker: Origin of Originality, Navigating the Artistic Canon, Battle of Ideas, Institute of Ideas, Barbican Centre INFO
2012 Presentation at Hampstead School of Art
2012 Led National Portrait Gallery Tours for Park Lane Hotels Art Initiative
2012 In conversation with Estelle Lovatt, Family Matters exhibition, Gazelli Art House, Mayfair
2011 Honorary Presidential Lectures, Psycause, Pribor, Czech Republic
2011 Psycause Conference Chair, opening and closing speeches
2011 Speaker, Seminar on Sculpture led by Richard Wentworth, Paddington Studios
2011 APsaA (American Psychoanalytic Association) National Meeting: Screening, Q&A
2010 Conceptual Art, London Philosophy Group, ICA
2010 Freud’s Medals, Panel discussion, Centre for Jewish Culture, Krakow
2009 Q&A following film screening: Fine Art Dept. (under Prof. Wu Mali) Shifan University, Kaohsiung, South Taiwan
2009 Film screening followed by MediaTek Lecture, Long Ying-tai Cultural Foundation, Zhongshan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 Q&A following film screening: New York Psychoanalytic Institute, NY, USA
2008 Flim screening preview and participant in the roundtable "Is Freud Dead" at the Philoctetes Centre NY, NY, USA - VIDEOLINK
2008 Royal College of Art, Cross Currents #3, presentation on Visual Perception
2008 DVD `Dead or Alive` film presentation at the Fourth International Symposium, Psychoanalysis and Art, Florence (preview on link)
2008 Moderator for the Fourth International Symposium, Psychoanalysis and Art, Florence
2008 Presentation at Waterstones book launch for Relative Relations
2007 Q&A following film screening: German Psychoanalytic Society, Berlin,PAPERS
2014 Paper: In the Mould of the Fathers 6th Int.Symposium of Psychoanalysis and Art, contrib.
2013 Paper: Lucian`s Last Legs Publication Symposium on Psychological Birth and Infant Deveopment, Pribor, Moravia Czech Rep.
2013 Paper: Saving Sigmund Essay for the Council for Assisting Accademic Refugees (Cara) auction catalogue
2012 Lucian`s Last Legs, Age and Creativity International Congress on Art and Psychology, Luca, Italy
2012 Paper: Beyond Earth Death Beyond Earth Death Freud Museum
2011 Paper: Beyond Art Death, Appearance, Reality and Beyond Conference History of Ideas dept. Jagiellonian University, Krakow
2011 Paper: HIStory- same old, new old, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, exhibition info, images
2011 Paper: Transformation, Aplimat 2011, Maths and Art, Slovak University, Bratislava
2010 Medals for Oxford University, Bams Conference, Ruskin School, Oxford
2010 Freud’s Medals, Fidems, Tampera, Finland
2010 Freud’s Medals, Middlesex University Conference (Art&Psychology)
2009 Old Dreams, New Interpretations, Goethe Inst. - German Cultural Centre in Taipei
2007 Concept, Comprehension and Completion` - an artist`s research journey,
2007 Conciliation and Estrangement: Symposium` org. by UNAM, Mexico City
2007 Inside Out Plaster Casting Conference- Worcester College, Oxford University
2005 Tokens or Treasure - an artists perspective, BAMS ConferencePUBLICATIONS
2014 interview : Lost Wax to Lost Fathers, Grief and Transcendence by Adele Tutter, pub by Routledge
2014 Psychology tomorrow magazine, Robert Frashure interview
2014 Paper: Lucian`s Last Legs Age and Creativity International Congress on Art and Psychology published papers
2013 Adelaide Damoah Art online interview
2012 Front Cover: La Lettura, Corriere della Sera, 9 September 2012
2011 Paper: Beyond Art Death, History of Ideas dept. Jagiellonian University, Krakow
2009 Buddha Head: Essay for Oriental Museum’s Treasures Catalogue, Durham University
2007 Relative Relations by Jane McAdam Freud ISBN 10 0-9529848-1-4 --REVIEW
2006 We Do- an invitation: exhibition catalogue, Adele Boeg Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2004 Give and Take- 21st century icons, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
1999 Resonating, Institute of Contemporary Art, (The Contemporary), St. Louise, MO, USA
1996 Sculpture -On the Edge by Jane McAdam Freud, ISBN 0 9529848 0 6PRESENTATIONS/ FILM SCREENINGS1
2012 Three Generations of the Freud Family, Sex, Psychology and Art, 4th Chichester Art Lecture, Minerva Theatre, Chichester,INFO
2012 Panel Speaker: Origin of Originality, Navigating the Artistic Canon, Battle of Ideas, Institute of Ideas, Barbican Centre INFO
2012 Presentation at Hampstead School of Art
2012 Led National Portrait Gallery Tours for Park Lane Hotels Art Initiative
2012 In conversation with Estelle Lovatt, Family Matters exhibition, Gazelli Art House, Mayfair
2011 Honorary Presidential Lectures, Psycause, Pribor, Czech Republic
2011 Psycause Conference Chair, opening and closing speeches
2011 Speaker, Seminar on Sculpture led by Richard Wentworth, Paddington Studios
2011 APsaA (American Psychoanalytic Association) National Meeting: Screening, Q&A
2010 Conceptual Art, London Philosophy Group, ICA
2010 Freud’s Medals, Panel discussion, Centre for Jewish Culture, Krakow
2009 Q&A following film screening: Fine Art Dept. (under Prof. Wu Mali) Shifan University, Kaohsiung, South Taiwan
2009 Film screening followed by MediaTek Lecture, Long Ying-tai Cultural Foundation, Zhongshan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 Q&A following film screening: New York Psychoanalytic Institute, NY, USA
2008 Flim screening preview and participant in the roundtable "Is Freud Dead" at the Philoctetes Centre NY, NY, USA - VIDEOLINK
2008 Royal College of Art, Cross Currents #3, presentation on Visual Perception
2008 DVD `Dead or Alive` film presentation at the Fourth International Symposium, Psychoanalysis and Art, Florence (preview on link)
2008 Moderator for the Fourth International Symposium, Psychoanalysis and Art, Florence
2008 Presentation at Waterstones book launch for Relative Relations
2007 Q&A following film screening: German Psychoanalytic Society, Berlin
Jane McAdam Freud the daughter of Lucian Freud and Katherine McAdam. Her first sculpture was acquired by the British Museum in 1981, while she was still an art student doing her first degree at Central School of Arts, London. She has work in the permanent collections of important national and international museums and is a visiting lecturer at the University of the Arts, London.
Jane lives in NW London.
My early influences are my former tutors Stezaker and Paolozzi
Ongoing influences range from Baldessari to Bourgeois
Conceptually I am influenced by Freudian theory.
2014 Ham and High
2014 Hendon and Finchley Times, Harrow Times,
2012,13, Guardian, Times, Standard, various
2011 Jon Snows review of 2011, various broadsheets
Past
Taipei Times,
Optima magazine
Harrow Observer, Watford Observer
Cambden New Journal
Hello Magazine
Eve Standard
