Linda Brothwell

Visual Artist Bio

Linda Brothwell (b.1981) is a British visual artist. Her multi disciplinary practice casts her as a maker of objects, tools and publicly sited interventions. She considers what it means to make something by hand that takes ‘care’ as its core, to not only make the ‘thing’ but to make the tools to make the thing, to spend months or years immersed in the techniques, the materials and the stories of a place.

Her ‘Acts of Care’ series initiated a repair movement in the arts and earned recognition through international gallery support, the Jerwood Makers Open (2013), and a place on the Design of the Year shortlist (2009). In 2019 she travelled to Japan as a Churchill Fellow researching ‘The Lifecycle of Tools in Japanese Culture’.

Brothwell’s testimony to the value of craft skills and tools was celebrated in an award-winning co-produced BBC4 documentary Handmade in Hull in 2017. 

She has exhibited globally with Palais de Tokyo, representing the UK at Cheongju Craft Biennial and EXD biennial. Her work is included in the V&A and RCA permanent collections and private collections worldwide.

In 2023 Brothwell’s first permanent public artwork Motion Efficiency Study in bronze was unveiled on the facade of Bristol Beacon building in Bristol, UK.

Brothwell is a graduate of The Royal College of Art (2009), where she is now a lecturer, and a Churchill Fellow since 2019.