Following her show last year at London’s Riflemaker gallery, which saw French-British artist Alice Anderson fill the space with hair, she is back with her latest hair-centric exhibition at The Freud Museum.

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 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 runs from 15 April - 5 June 2011 at The Freud Museum. Photo above; Housebound 2011 Alice Anderson.