Jane McAdam Freud
Portrait of my Father, 2012
Terracotta and sand
50 x 32 x 40 cm
19 5/8 x 12 4/8 x 15 5/8 ins
19 5/8 x 12 4/8 x 15 5/8 ins
Jane’s work frequently finds inspiration from the rich source of her own family background, referencing both the remarkable collection of antiquities and sculptural objects collected by her grandfather and the...
Jane’s work frequently finds inspiration from the rich source of her own family background, referencing both the remarkable collection of antiquities and sculptural objects collected by her grandfather and the cultural legacy of Freudian psychoanalysis which has had such a profound and lasting effect on contemporary psyche.
Grief and its transcendence (Lost wax to lost fathers)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wj-PnYYPk1ZSUx1sbLH9ZUU6SUQpazRX/view?usp=drive_link
P. 138 JMF: Often in terms of process, after a period of working solely with relief I am driven to re-engage with forms in the round. Permission is something quite childlike but that’s what I felt I needed and got, as I did not want to imbue the piece with any negative thoughts, intensions or memories. My father sat for the sketches from which I made the sculpture.
Exhibitions
Jane McAdam Freud: An Absent Presence, A Retrospective in Dialogue with Louise Bourgeois and Holly Stevenson, Gazelli Art House, London, UK (2025)Family Matters, Gazelli Art House, London, UK (2012)
Jane Mcadam Freud, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea (2016)
