Viewing Holly Stevenson: Tracing The Irretraceable at Freud Museum

The Freud Museum’s latest thought-provoking and intimate exhibition comes via two sculptors:
Holly Stevenson, the first Freud Artist in Residence, a new programme established by the Jane McAdam Freud Estate, and the late Jane McAdam Freud, the British sculptor, daughter of Lucien Freud and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud.

During the 18-month residency, Stevenson has spent time in Příbor, Czechia, the birth place of Sigmund and the resting home of Jane McAdam Freud, who ran a gallery there. The resulting exhibition explores facets of the work of McAdam Freud, who died in 2022. Stevenson has created humorous and playful glazed stoneware ceramic sculptures that respond to and converse with McAdam Freud’s.

Stevenson said: “Through this exploration of Jane’s art making, I will observe how the language of psychoanalysis is not simply a form of interpretation but that art making, what’s going on inside, is a form of psychoanalysis: I will match my works with one of Jane’s as if in-conversation.”