‘Holly Stevenson Tracing the Irretraceable’

P. 7 A long time acolyte of Sigmund Freud, Holly Stevenson’s work is replete with Freudian slips and innuendoes; the sculpture she has made for this exhibition at the Freud Museum feel particularly like a series of in-jokes between the artist and the father of psychoanalysis.’

P. 17 ‘I’ve always used faces in my work, I just haven’t made anatomically correct heads, that is a bit of a departure. But there’s always some sense of the limb that can talk, or the articulated body part that acts as a talking head. In my recent bas relief heads inspired by votives, the movement comes through the hair, the hair is doing the talking. Labyrinth focuses on the Freudian idea that we have to talk ourselves out of the maze; Speak Well has a head full of mouths and tongues, the talking cure; Medusa’s snacking hair relates to the stringy vapour characters with heads from the ashtrays.