Artist statement
I make sculpture to create places I can inhabit.
Making is where I become fully alive. Through the slow, repetitive work of wrapping, stitching, layering, and binding, I become calm, honest, and present. Sculpture is not simply what I make; it is where I go.
I first found that place as a child in the woods and wetlands of southern Georgia. I built forts beneath tall pines, searched far and wide for arrowheads, animal tracks, feathers, and berries, imagined fairies dancing through fern-covered creek beds, and swam in ponds with water too dark to see beneath the surface. The landscape held mystery, and wonder lived there. I wasn't looking at nature; I was inhabiting it.
My sculptures are born from a longing to return.
Rooted in textiles and shaped through physical handwork, each sculpture emerges slowly. The process transforms me as much as the material itself. Each sculpture gives lasting form to a way of being that exists only through making. It preserves and bears witness to what occurred there. Every sculpture is evidence that something real has taken place.
Sending a sculpture into the world feels less like completion than release. It leaves my hands carrying the life through which it came to be, so that what began as a place for me might become a place for someone else.
I offer these sculptures as invitations to those who encounter them—not to step into my world, but more fully into their own.
ARTIST ALL THE WAY.
Annie Broderick is a Washington, DC–based sculptor whose work explores place, memory, and inheritance. Rooted in the needlework traditions passed through generations of women in her maternal family, she creates immersive textile and mixed-media sculptures that merge contemporary abstraction with deeply personal histories, inviting close attention and rewarding sustained looking.
Trained as a painter at Davidson College and as a copyist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Broderick brings a painter's sensitivity to surface, light, and gesture to her three-dimensional work. Her work has been featured in DC Modern Luxury and exhibited in galleries, art fairs, and public spaces throughout the Washington region, with pieces held in private and corporate collections across the United States, including permanent installations at the American Express Centurion Lounge at Reagan National Airport.
Broderick serves on the Board of Directors of the Workhouse Arts Foundation.