Freud Museum London

In early 2012 artist Jane McAdam Freud presents a large scale sculpture portraying her father Lucian Freud. It will be unveiled and exhibited for the first time in London’s Freud Museum – once home to her great grandfather, Sigmund Freud. Jane spent many hours with her father in the months before his death in July 2011 making sketches for this new work. It will be shown at the Freud Museum alongside other smaller scale work and preparatory sketches.

Although a great inspiration to her and a regular presence in her childhood, Lucian Freud became only an occasional figure in his daughter’s life as she grew up; when Jane was eight years old, father and daughter lost contact, only to reconnect when Jane was 31. By then she was respected artist herself, having established a reputation as a sculptor under the name of Jane McAdam. When they met again, Jane says:

'At that time I saw my father regularly and, over about six months, we made sculpture. While we sat for each other, modelling in wax, we chatted a lot and he taught me about light – to work from natural daylight or electric light, but not both at the same time. He taught me what it meant to really concentrate. He looked with every inch of his body, his muscles, and nerves, his whole being. We darted around each other looking at the forms; it was exhausting and demanding – but also enlivening and inspiring. Some time ago, I asked him if he would sit for me. True to his word, he sat for me very recently. The last time I saw my father was shortly before his death, when I finished the sketches of him. I’ve now used them to make this large portrait sculpture. It helps me to keep him alive'.

Born in 1958 in London, Jane McAdam Freud is the daughter of Lucian Freud and Katherine McAdam. Her multi-disciplinary practice covers drawing, print, sculpture, medals and digital media. Jane received her first degree from Central School of Art, London, was awarded the British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art. Her international shows include NY, LA, Taipei, Berlin and the Czech Republic. In June and July this year Hinged was shown at the Freud Museum of Dreams in St. Petersburg and HIStory shown at the Austrian Consulate Gallery in Cracow in September/October. In the UK her solo shows include the Ashmolean Museum-Oxford, Fitzwilliam Museum-Cambridge, Hunterian Museum-Glasgow, and Freud Museum-London where she was artist in residence in 2006. Jane's work is represented in numerous major national and international public collections. The British Museum made their first acquisition in 1980 while she was a student at the Central. Other national collections include the V&A, National Gallery archives, Ashmolean and Fitzwilliam Museums. International public collections include the National Gallery of Greece, Berlin State Museum, National Museum of Copenhagen and the Carnegie Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum USA. Jane has taught at many art schools and is an Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins, London and is a sculpture tutor at Morley College, London. She lives and works in London.

Suitable for

• Any age

Where

Freud Museum

Admission

Free with admission to the museum (£6.00 adults/ £4.50 senior citizens, £3.00 concessions)

Website

http://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/forthcoming/

The Freud Museum London is delighted to announce an exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed will show original documents from the artist’s recently discovered psychoanalytic writings, as well as drawings and sculptures, in the house of the founding father of psychoanalysis. Following its first showing in Latin America, the exhibition has been re-imagined for the unique setting of the Freud Museum London, which was discussed as a venue by Louise Bourgeois before her death. Appropriately, in the final home of Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna Freud, this exhibition will explore the artist’s complex and ambivalent engagement with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

Where

Freud Museum London

Admission

£6/£4.50/£3.00/Free for under 12's

Website

http://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/74492/louise-bourgeois-the-return-of-the-repressed-/

This evening writer and academic Mary Bergstein, will give an illustrated talk at the Freud Museum, introduced by HAS Chaiman Zsuzsanna Ardó.

The talk will explore Freud's visual imagination in terms of the photography he (and his patients) pondered. It is important that Freud believed repressed memories were unconscious, and that the most potent memories and desires would emerge in psychoanalysis from deep inside, via dreams. In the period from Freud's childhood to his old-age ruminations, several kinds of photographs were prominent: portraits, psychiatric illustrations, archaeological photography, and ethnographic documentation. These images along with the erotic photography and films of the era, that Mary Bernstein will introduce, paralleled the phenomena of Freudian memories and dreams.

When

7-8:30pm

Where

Freud Museum London

Admission

£10/£7

Website

http://www.freud.org.uk/events/74510/photography-and-freud-from-roma-amor-to-erotic-saturn/

Love is in the air and so we bring you a love themed house tour, researched and produced by our brilliant house guide, Anne.

See the house in a new light and through the collections, letters and archive images, uncover lesser known aspects of Freud and his wife Martha's passionate romance.

Doors open at 6.30pm for a drink before the tour begins. The tour will start at 7.00pm sharp and will last approximately 50 mins.

When

6:30-8pm

Where

Freud Museum London

Admission

£10/£7

Website

http://www.freud.org.uk/events/74544/love-at-the-freud-museum/

Artist Jane McAdam Freud presents a large scale sculpture portraying her father Lucian Freud. It will be unveiled and exhibited for the first time in the Freud Museum – once home to her great grandfather, Sigmund Freud. Jane spent many hours with her father in the months before his death in July 2011 making sketches for this new work. It will be shown at the Freud Museum alongside other smaller scale work and preparatory sketches. Includes Q&A.

Doors open 6.30pm, event starts promptly at 7pm.

Suitable for

• Any age
• Family friendly

When

7-9pm

Where

Freud Museum

Admission

£10.00/£7.00 concessions. Booking is recommended and tickets can be booked online here: http://www.freud.org.uk/shop/TALKS_AND_EVENTS.html

Estelle Roith is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and trained at the London Centre for psychotherapy. She is the author of the of The Riddle of Freud: Jewush influences on his theory of female sexuality published in 1987, in the New Library of Psychoanalysis. Her recent work includes: Ishmael and Isaac: An Enduring Conflict, in Sibling Relationships'by Coles, 2006.

When

7-8:30pm

Where

Freud Museum London

Admission

£10/£7

Website

http://www.freud.org.uk/events/74537/hysteria-heredity-and-anti-semitism-freud%E2%80%99s-challenge-to-the-jewish-stereotype/

This one day conference draws on the recent discovery of Louise Bourgeois’s psychoanalytic writings. Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and became one of the best known artists of the 20th century, inspiring a rich commentary from academics and critics alike. What is not generally known is that she undertook psychoanalysis spanning three decades. These extraordinary writings record her reactions to psychoanalysis and suggest new ways of thinking about her creative process. The conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from the worlds of art and psychoanalysis to discuss these areas as part of a wider conversation about the fundamental relationship between art and life, and the therapeutic nature of art itself.

Where

Freud Museum London

Admission

£60/£45 Concessions, with a further £5 reduction for Members of the Museum

Website

http://www.freud.org.uk/events/74534/through-the-writings-of-louise-bourgeois-new-perspectives-on-art-and-psychoanalysis-/

Ghost Track re-frames act one scene one of King Lear through an autobiographical lens. It is a solo performance about Claire’s many ‘dads’, the complexities of the psyche and her left vocal chord. The performance plays out through 3 microphones whilst revealing sound compositions triggered by a nano pad. The work prompts stand up actions about anxiety whilst referencing slips and trips to the Freud Museum.


Nothing.Nothing will come of nothing. Coo, coo, coo, says the dove...

Co-directed with Alexander Kelly and sound by Richard Wade.

Claire Hind is a performance artist and academic at York St John University. She is in interested in the relationship between text and play and psychoanalysis as material. Claire is touring Ghost Track as a solo performance internationally and is currently making an art film with artistic director Gary Winters entitled Kong Lear with the idea that Kong is the contents of King Lear’s Id. The film will accompany Ghost Track in the future acting as if it is the unconscious material of the live solo performance. Ghost Track is currently touring to the USA, Norway, Romania and the UK.


Ghost Track is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Suitable for

• 18+
• 16-17

When

7pm-

Where

Freud Museum

Admission

£10.00/7.00 concession

Website

http://www.freud.org.uk/events/74433/ghost-track-/