Maisie's work often explores themes of inherited value through visual references to the historical and the familiar. Her work re-interprets aesthetics from art history genres, drawing links between narratives past and present.
Using historical references, combined with contemporary materials and processes, Maisie creates work that presents a sense of illusion and the uncanny.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.
Broadhead studio is based in London, she is also an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art.
Maisie studied Three-Dimensional Crafts at the University of Brighton, before completing an MA in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art 2009. In 2013, Broadhead won the Jerwood Makers Open and in 2015 she received a major grant from Arts Council England for a public commission at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, UK. Most recently had new work commissioned for Manchester Art Gallery 2018 and National Glass Centre 2019.
Maisie’s work has been exhibited in major museum shows including at the National Gallery, UK; Manchester Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, UK; CaixaForum Barcelona and Madrid, Spain; the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; and Nationalmuseum, Sweden.