Artist Maisie Broadhead and gallerist Sarah Myerscough have worked together since Maisie’s degree show in 2009. Join them as they discuss Maisie’s practice, their creative relationship and the role of the gallerist in the cultural landscape.

About the speakers:

Sarah Myerscough founded her eponymous gallery in 1998. She represents a distinguished group of contemporary craft and design artists whose practices are grounded in craft-making traditions but defined by contemporary innovation and invention. Through diverse making processes, they collectively embrace the complex intersections between history and future; hand and technology; form and function. Sarah’s position on the board of trustees for Cockpit Arts, since 2016, is representative of how she has become a key figurehead in the world of luxury craft and design.

By curating a specialist programme of exhibitions, Sarah Myerscough Gallery advocates the importance for retaining traditions within craft and design, to mould a vision of the future. In doing so, the gallery works in both public and private collections, maintaining a full programme of exhibitions while participating in leading art fairs around the world.

Sarah's educational commitment has culminated in Crafted Art Foundation, proposed for 2024. 

Maisie Broadhead’s work often explores themes of inherited value through visual references to the historical and the familiar. Using historical references, combined with contemporary materials and processes, Maisie creates work that presents a sense of illusion and the uncanny. The subjects of Maisie’s work are often those closest to her; family and friends, who regularly feature in her work and inspire their narratives.

Maisie’s practice employs a broad range of materials, processes and collaborators. Commonly her works are a mixture of staged photographic images combined with sculptural elements, and how and where these details meet, becomes a constant dialogue in the work.

In 2013, she was a winner of the Jerwood Makers Open and in 2015 she received a major grant from the Arts Council England for a public commission at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, UK. She's also received public commissions from the Manchester Art Gallery in 2018 and National Glass Centre in 2019, where her work is held as part of their permanent collection. Most recently, Maisie's work is showing as part of The Wellcome collection’s exhibition,Being Human.