Clark Broadwood-Smith (b. 1995, Cambridge, UK) is a sculptor based in Suffolk whose practice explores the shared visual language of human making across time and geography. Drawing upon traditional craft techniques, archaeology, anthropology, and extensive travel, he creates works that occupy a space between contemporary sculpture and imagined artefact.
After studying Sculpture and Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, Broadwood-Smith developed his practice through direct engagement with traditional crafts, working alongside master thatchers, woodcarvers and bronze foundries throughout East Anglia. This hands-on approach remains central to his work, where process and material are inseparable from meaning.
Travel and artist residencies have played a formative role in the development of his practice. Time spent in India, the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, and most notably, Rome—where he was awarded a travelling scholarship by the Royal Society of British Artists in 2022—deepened his interest in the ways objects carry cultural memory across generations. Encounters with ancient sites, vernacular traditions, and diverse approaches to making continue to inform his sculptural language.
Working primarily in bronze, wood, and stone, Broadwood-Smith investigates the recurring forms, symbols, and material gestures that emerge across cultures separated by centuries and continents. His sculptures often appear excavated rather than made, existing as relics from an imagined civilisation while remaining rooted in contemporary concerns.
Exhibitions & Residencies
Lovers Court, London 2026
We Live With, Ogata, Paris 2026
Abbey Haus Solo Exhibition, Suffolk 2025
For Art Sake, Ballroom Arts, 2025
14X14, Framlingham, The Old Theatre, 2024
Craignish Estate Residency, Scotland, 2023
Aldeburgh Gallery, Group Show 2023
Sensitive Choas, Abbey Hall, Suffolk, 2023
Traveling Scholarship, Italy, Royal Society of British Artists, Rising Stars, 2022
Contemporary Landings, Snape Malting’s Suffolk, 2022
Royal Society of British Artists, Rising Stars, Mayfair, 2022
Wilson Stephens & Jones Gallery, London 2021-2022
Wilson Stephens & Jones Gallery, Bruton Somerset 2021-2022
Sutton Hoo, National Trust Sculpture Trail, 2021
Outpost Studios Members Exhibition, 2019
Anthony Gormley High House Residency, Shortlisted 2018
N2018G Forum Exhibition, Norwich. 2018
N20 Undercroft Gallery, Norwich. 2018
Artist In Residence, Bharat Bhavan Art Complex, India. 2018
Free Range, The Old Truman Brewery London. 2017
Totem e Clastico, Nunns Yard Gallery, Norwich. 2017
Non-Non Diagetic, Yallops Gallery, Norwich. 2017
The Common Room, St Lawrence Church, Norwich. 2017
Pop-Up, Firstsite, Colchester. 2016
Contact : cbroadwoodsmith@gmail.com
instagram: clark.broadwood.smith