Biography:
Jane McAdam Freud MA-RCA, FRBS is represented in the major public collections at home and abroad. Her 55 solo exhibitions include retrospectives at the Wooyang Contemporary Art Museum, Gyeongju-si, South Korea and at the Freud Museum London. In 2014 along with Annie Leibovitz McAdam Freud won the European Trebbia award for achievement in the arts.
McAdam Freud studied at the Royal College of Art, London under the supervision of John Stetzeker and Edwardo Paolozzi both of who have had an influence on her work.
Jane has lectured at the major London art school including the Royal College of Art and the University of the Arts where she continues to teach on the Carving and Casting project.
Having published several papers on her works, Jane McAdam Freud focus is on ‘origins’ both in a personal and universal sense and in this sense her works are conceptually informed by psychoanalytic theory.
She is currently ‘artist in residence’ at the psychiatric hospital in Genoa, which culminates in December with a two-part exhibition titled Woman as Taboo. Part 1 will be held at the Palazzo Ducale and the other at the Institute of Unknown Materials and Forms, Genoa.