Jane McAdam Freud was born in 1958 and had her first solo show at aged 18. In 1980 she won an RSA bursary for a work acquired by the British Museum for their permanent collection, the same year.

She was educated at Wimbledon School of Art, Central School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She won the British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome in 1986-89 where she studied Sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arte and the Scuola D'arte Della Medaglia. In 1991 she was awarded the Italian State Mint prize and granted Freedom of the City of London.

Jane was then invited to take up the posts of engraver to the Royal Mint Britain followed by Chief Sculptor at the Perth Mint, Australia from where she returned in 1993 to concentrate on her practice.

Works represented in permanent collections include British Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum-Cambridge, Ashmolean Museum-Oxford, Yorkshire Museum-York, National Museum of Ireland-Dublin, Berlin State Museum-Germany, Rijksmuseum-Leiden-Netherlands, Pulitzer Foundation-St Louis-Missouri-USA, HRH Queen Elizabeth.

Solo shows include Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London 2006, Freud Museum, London 2006, Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide, Australia, 2006, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 2004, The Gallery, University College Cork 2001, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 1999, Simmons Gallery, Bloomsbury, London 1998, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland 1997, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1997, Yorkshire Museum, York 1996.

Jane is associate lecturer Central St Martins School of Art and visiting tutor at Morley College.

Her work can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Gallery, The Clockmakers Museum at the Guildhall in London or by appointment at the British Museum or her studio.

Jane McAdam Freud is a Fellow of the Royal British Sculpture Society a member of the British Art Medal Society, the Art Workers Guild and a Founding Fellow of the Munton Medallion.