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Caroline Broadhead

Caroline Broadhead (born 1950, Leeds) is an English multidisciplinary artist, jewellery designer and installation artist.[1][2][3] Using a diversity of materials to create art pieces such as jewellery, textiles and furniture, she explores the "interface between a person and an object, the sense of touch, movement and change."[4][5][6][7] She joined the Jewellery Design programme at Central Saint Martins in 2009 and became Programme Director of Jewellery and Textiles in 2012. She retired from teaching in 2018.[2][8][9]

Caroline Broadhead
Broadhead in 2002
Born1950 (age 73–74)
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
EducationLeicester College of Art
Central School of Art and Design
Known forJewellery, textiles, furniture
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life

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Born in Leeds in 1950, Broadhead completed a foundation course at Leicester College of Art in 1969 and a Diploma in Jewellery Design in 1972 at Central School of Art and Design.[9][3][8][1][7] Her first experience making jewellery was in a ceramics class at school.[4][2]

Career

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After finishing university in 1972, Broadhead shared a workshop space in Covent Garden with two former classmates. She began teaching part-time at Middlesex University to support herself financially so she could focus on freely creating. She also launched a jewellery line, C&N, with Nuala Jamison.[2][10][8] Broadhead started out designing unusual jewellery but, while in Amsterdam on a Crafts Council bursary, made her first garment, a top with extremely long sleeves, in 1982. She developed an interest in "things that come into contact with or represent the body: shadows, clothing, [and] chairs" and expanded her exhibition types to include large-scale installations.[8][4] She has worked with choreographers such as Rosemary Lee to capture movement and fluidity in her artwork.[2][4][6][8] In 2007, she was an artist-in-residence at Pilchuck Glass School[3] and became the lead of the BA Jewellery Design course at Central Saint Martins in 2009 and the Programme Director of Jewellery and Textiles in 2012. She retired from teaching in 2018.[9][4][7]

In 2012, she and her daughter Maisie recreated classic paintings in a collection called Taking the Chair, which featured Broadhead's chairs.[11][12]

Broadhead's work has been displayed in a range of galleries, museums, and other venues, including Bath Abbey,[4] Arnolfini,[13] The Hepworth Wakefield, [14] National Gallery of Victoria,[15] Stedelijk Museum, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Arts and Design,[9][3][1] Institute of Contemporary Arts, Painted Bride Art Center,[10] Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art,[6] CODA Museum[2][9] and the Marsden Woo Gallery.[4] In 2019, she held a retrospective exhibition at Lethaby Gallery, which showcased work she created from the 1970s to 2017.[7][16][9][4] In 2023, she curated the Schmuck exhibition at the International Crafts Fair during Munich Jewellery Week.[17]

Selected exhibitions

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Awards

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Personal life

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Broadhead has twin daughters, Maisie and Zoë, who are an artist and a nurse, respectively.[23] Her great-uncle was John Bulloch Souter, painter of The Breakdown.[2][24]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Caroline Broadhead". Crafts Council Collections Online. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Shih, Olivia (4 February 2018). "In conversation with Caroline Broadhead". Art Jewelry Forum. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Hemmings, Jessica (Winter 2007). "Caroline Broadhead: interrupted gaze". Surface Design Journal. pp. 28–33. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Lloyd, K. (17 September 2018). "Story: Caroline Broadhead". University of the Arts London. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Caroline Broadhead". Galeria Reverso. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Interview with Jewellery Artist Caroline Broadhead". Aesthetica. 23 October 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d Cowan, Katy (10 January 2019). "Caroline Broadhead on 10 years at Central Saint Martins and her love of jewellery and collaboration". Creative Boom. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Jewellery Girls Q&A: Caroline Broadhead, CSM". Professional Jeweller. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g "Caroline Broadhead". Marsden Woo Gallery. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  10. ^ a b "Caroline Broadhead: Jewelry and Beyond". Metalsmith Newspaper. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  11. ^ Zhang, Michael (22 November 2012). "Accurate Photographic Recreations of Old Paintings That Feature Chairs". PetaPixel. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  12. ^ Vourazeri, Stefania (2 October 2011). "'Taking The Chair' by Caroline and Maisie Broadhead at the Marsden Woo gallery". Yatzer. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  13. ^ "Caroline Broadhead jewellery exhibition starts". Arnolfini. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  14. ^ "Caroline Broadhead". Art UK. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  15. ^ "Caroline Broadhead". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  16. ^ "An exhibition of work from 45 years of Caroline Broadhead's diverse practice". University of the Arts London. 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  17. ^ Boons, Sofie (24 March 2023). "BAJ's Sofie Boons gets inspired at Munich Jewellery Week". British Academy of Jewellery. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  18. ^ Jones, T. Lloyd (11 January 2019). "Caroline Broadhead: a retrospective opens". University of the Arts London. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  19. ^ a b c "2005 INSTALLATION: BREATHING SPACE". York Museums Trust. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  20. ^ "Caroline Broadhead & Maria Militsi". Meer. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  21. ^ "Discover the essence of pearls". Bangkok Post. 8 August 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  22. ^ "29. Legnica International Jewellery Competition STILL HUMAN?". Legnica Jewellery Festival. 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  23. ^ "Maisie Broadhead's Award-Winning Portrait 'Take a Break – Zoe'". Paintings in Hospitals. 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  24. ^ Kennedy, Maev (24 January 2018). "Racist undertones of Britain's jazz age explored in exhibition". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
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