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# Alice Anderson’s Childhood Rituals
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/alice-anderson-8217-s-childhood-rituals/
- Published: 2011-04-12T11:52:46.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:03:52.000Z
- Description: Following her show last year at London‚Äôs <a href="http://www.riflemaker.org/s-index">Riflemaker</a>…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Following her show last year at London’s [Riflemaker](http://www.riflemaker.org/s-index?ref=protein.xyz) gallery, which saw French-British artist [Alice Anderson](http://www.alice-anderson.org/?ref=protein.xyz) fill the space with hair, she is back with her latest hair-centric exhibition at [The Freud Museum](http://www.freud.org.uk/?ref=protein.xyz).

Alice Anderson’s Childhood Rituals, which opens April 15, will involve thousands of metres of red synthetic dolls hair tying up the exterior of the building, the first site-specific installation to grace the Freud Museum façade. Inside sees all sorts of objects wound, bound and caged with threads and yet more hair.

[Goldsmith’s](http://www.gold.ac.uk/?ref=protein.xyz) graduate Anderson is known for her use of wax dolls, puppets and hair to reinvent her childhood through re-imagined memories, in Childhood Rituals she comments; *“I remember the terrible fears I used to have when I was a child left alone at home for many long hours waiting for the return of my mother. At that time I invented rituals for myself to calm my anxieties. These rituals consisted of undoing the thread from seams and I wound these threads around parts of my body and other objects. This obsession became so bad that I started to do the same thing using my hair.”*

[Alice Anderson's Childhood Rituals](http://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/74077/alice-anderson%E2%88%9A%C2%A2%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%B4s-childhood-rituals-/?ref=protein.xyz) runs from 15 April - 5 June 2011 at [The Freud Museum](http://www.freud.org.uk/?ref=protein.xyz). Photo above; Housebound 2011 Alice Anderson.