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SHORT SUMMARY BIOGRAPHY
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Chris paints & works with clay (pottery & sculpture). He works with ideas & the imagination, enjoying the ordinary & extraordinary of people, multiplex by their nature of being human. Chris was born in Britain, days before the end of World War Two, of German immigrant parents. His childhood homes were mostly on the grounds of one of the large psychiatric hospitals (now closed) in Surrey & Quaker school. Following completing multidisciplinary & social anthropology study (University of Sussex 1965-70) and continueing old hobbies [making music, pots (working with clay) & keeping a 1950s car], as well as interest in various kinds of communities, social & personal change, he completed a Diploma in Art Therapy (acceptance on such courses without a Fine Art Degree being exceptional) doing trainee work experience in psychiatry (University of Sheffield 1992-4), previously having led a studio workshop (1984-90) in context of a caring community & of institutionalized Community Care. Before long, Chris HPC State Registration lapsed. Then his Senior years arrived. There was more to do than ever. His making of art continued (& research on image & imagination). He has shown ome of his work in Berlin & Paris as well as at www.plusiarts.co.uk & elsewhere.
Languages spoken: 1st English, 2nd German and 3rd French
UNDERGRADUATE & POSTGRADUATE STUDY:
BA 1968 Social Anthropology (fieldwork in Malta) with Social Psychology, School of African & Asian Studies at University of Sussex.
MA 1970 Social Anthropology, "Process in Social Boundaries : A Study of Processes in the Isolation of Selected Rural and Urban Communities" (thesis title) at University of Sussex
( thesis published at www.anthrobase.com/Txt/F/Freudenberg_C_D_01.htm ) ,
Diploma in Art Therapy 1994, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, Department of Medicine & Dentistry at University of Sheffield.
Own website: www.plusiarts.co.uk
CHRIS FREUDENBERG
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