Louise Bourgeois grew up outside Paris, where her parents ran a tapestry restoration workshop. Her childhood was marked by a complicated relationship with her family, which led to traumatic experiences that were a major source of inspiration for her art. From intimate drawings to large-scale installations, created in a variety of materials including wood, plaster, marble, and bronze, Bourgeois expressed psychological states through a visual vocabulary of formal and symbolic equivalents. The scale and materials of her work varied as much as its forms, which oscillated between abstraction and figuration. Emotions such as loneliness, jealousy, anger, and fear are common threads throughout her work. Her almost obsessive writing, as well as drawing, remained central forms of expression throughout her life. Bourgeois’s work has been exhibited across the world, most recently at the National Museum of Art in Oslo, Norway, the Belvedere Vienna in Austria, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.