Clark Broadwood-Smith

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.