Art at the LCP

ATONEMENT

The view will open with an illuminated presentation by the artist and a discussion. During wine and refreshments, Jane will do a short workshop on creating a paper sculpture based on her sculpture Family Ties.

Prints (on the day) and limited edition sculpture (by order) will be for sale.

BIOGRAPHY: Jane McAdam Freud MA(RCA), FRBS

Jane McAdam Freud is a multi-disciplinary artist educated at Central St. Martin’s and the Royal College of Art in London. Recognition for her work began early with her first solo show at age 18. This was followed just a few years later with the prestigious acquisition by the British Museum of a prize winning work she made while studying at Central School of Art.

She won the British Art Medal scholarship in Rome in 1986 going on to win numerous commissions and awards including the Italian State Mint Prize in 1991and Freedom of the City of London in 1992.

McAdam Freud exhibits internationally in museums, galleries and Institutions and has produced twenty solo shows since 1996. Her recent and future shows include site specific venues in Taipei, London and Los Angeles. ‘Repetitions’ was shown at the New York Psycho-analytic Institute from (Mar-May 09). Her film ‘Dead or Alive’ was most recently screened for the MediaTek Lecture Series at the Lung Yingtai Foundation in Taipei (April 09), at the National Arts Club in New York and at the Kosciuszko Foundation NYC (Sep. 09). In September 2010 the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) in LA, USA will be hosting a large retrospective exhibition of Jane’s work.

She published 'On the Edge' 1996 and 'Relative Relations' in 2007 which was nominated by The Freud Museum for catalogue of the year. Recent presentation venues include Oxford University, Unam - Mexico City and La Pietra, Florence. Debate venues include the German Psychoanalytic Society, Berlin, and the Philoctetes Centre for the Imagination, New York. In March 09.

Jane participated in the Einstein and Picasso open space organised by the British Council in Dortmund, Germany in March 09 and has since been elected as a board member of the Scienar European Science and Art Directive –online portal.

Other future projects include the inclusion of her essay on the Oriental Museums’s Japanese Buddha Head  for ‘Oriental Treasures’ catalogue to be published for Durham University’s Oriental Museum. Jane’s paper ‘Freud’s Medals’ will be delivered at the XXX1 FIDEM Conference in Tampere Finland – June 2010.

Jane's work has been acquired for the Public Collections of the British Museum, Berlin State Museum, National Gallery of Greece, National Gallery Archives London and is on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum (Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Gallery: interactive cabinets: object 69 drawer 11).

Artist’s Statement

Atonement follows the premise that Sigmund Freud's choice of focus for his professional career was just one of many potential choices for this most versatile of minds. He chose to further examine mental development in the field of psychology that we now call psychoanalysis). He collected ancient sculpture whose stories informed/illustrated many of his theories. I was thinking of the fantasy scenario of Freud giving up (sacrificing) the choice of being a sculptor/artist and more conventionally choosing science: the loss he may have incurred in making that choice - not choosing art/sculpture where he could have used this ancient wisdom though actual, personal, visual illustration or through the making of sculpture rather that the collecting of it.
 
The atonement is Freud's. In this exhibition I would like to look at Freud's 'alternative' life through the device of my sculpture.