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Self Contained

Self Contained was an exhibition of new work at the Freud Museum, London from March - May 2013, supported by an Arts Council of England Individual Artists Award. The drawings for this exhibition emerged from works exhibited in a solo exhibition and the V&A’s Museum of Childhood and work in the group drawing exhibition Translation/Interpretation. For this exhibition Dream (an extensive series of small-scale drawings which attempts to explore the power of the gaze and the ethics of looking) were developed to include silverpoint works. These and other silverpoint panels depicted chosen photographs from the Museum’s archive were sited in the Anna Freud Room both on the wall and as objects, adjacent to her pioneering work in understanding child development and the sense of the child in conflict with the adult world. The exhibition room housed two other series of work. Wide Shut was a series of large double portraits of young girls, where one in each pair has open eyes. Also included was a series of seven letterpress works that present excerpts of texts from Turn of the Screw by Henry James, suggested by some academics to be based on a Freud case study. A book was published by RGAP (& distributed by Cornerhouse) to coincide with the exhibition, and included essays by Dr Graham Music, a child psychotherapist, as well as art writer Dr Maria Walsh, artist Louisa Minkin and a short essay by myself.

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