Caroline Broadhead

Caroline Broadhead‘s practice brings the unusually autonomous areas of jewellery, textiles and performance art into close relationship. For some years now she has used garments to express ideas about personal identity and to reveal the characteristic feelings or emotions that a person may seek to conceal. In recent works, shadows have become an integral part of the work. "Study for Grey Areas" is a suspended dress with a white shadow while in "back to the wall", the painted shadows of the thirteen dresses change gradually from black to white while the colour of the dresses turn from white to black.

Born in 1950, Broadhead trained at the Central School of Art and Design, London. Public collections that hold examples of her work include the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She was the winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Textiles in 1997.

previous exhibitions

13 October to 11 November 2006

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link to collections

Crafts Council Collection, London