Jane McAdam Freud Jane McAdam Freud Jane McAdam Freud MA(RCA) FRBS (born 24 February 1958) is a British conceptual sculptor working in Installation art and digital media. She was the winner of the 2014 European Trebbia Awards for artistic achievement. McAdam Freud was born in London to Katherine Margaret McAdam and Lucian Freud and she is the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. Her career began with a solo show at the age of 18, curated by her art teachers at Putney College, which is now part of South Thames College. After completing a Foundation course at Wimbledon College of Art, McAdam Freud studied Mosaics
Lucian Freud often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models. Born in Berlin, Freud was the son of a German Jewish mother, Lucie (née Brasch), and an Austrian