This is the first solo show by jewellery artist Maisie Broadhead at the Sarah Myerscough gallery, entitled The House of Fake.
This is the first solo show by jewellery artist Maisie Broadhead at the Sarah Myerscough gallery, entitled The House of Fake. The exhibition will show Broadhead’s photographic reinterpretations of iconic art images, which parody Old Masters paintings using highly detailed costumes and sets while showcasing her latest jewelery collection. The photographs present a beguiling mixture of the contemporary and the historical, and their rich execution and textural staging is simply beautiful. The "House of Fake" follows on from the artist’s 2009 exhibition, "Masters in Jewelery", where Broadhead displayed her jewelery pieces as props within a re-modeled transcription of an Old Master painting. Her work aims to explore the question of what is real and what is fake through the painstaking, theatrical recreation of the images.
