Gavin and Kelley Brodin are a Los Angeles and UK–based collaborative artist duo working across monumental sculpture, installation, and spatial design. Through their studio, Brodin, they create works that explore the relationship between material, perception, memory, and human experience, often blurring distinctions between sculpture, architecture, and environment.
Working across bronze, stainless steel, corten steel, stone, light, and organic materials, the Brodins investigate themes of transformation, material ambiguity, emotional architecture, inherited memory, and collective experience. Their sculptures frequently operate through perceptual contradiction — rigid materials appear soft, industrial forms become anthropomorphic, and monumental structures evoke intimacy and vulnerability. Through these tensions, the artists examine how objects can function as emotional and psychological vessels capable of carrying symbolic and cultural meaning.
Central to the duo’s practice is an interest in sculpture as spatial experience rather than static object. Their works are conceived to engage the body directly, inviting movement, reflection, and interaction while operating simultaneously as artifacts, thresholds, speculative architectures, and immersive environments.
The Brodins’ collaborative process is rooted in the tension between differing perspectives and disciplines. Gavin Brodin’s background in luxury residential and spatial design contributes an architectural sensitivity to scale, structure, and environment, while Kelley Brodin’s foundation in fine art and site-responsive installation informs the studio’s interest in symbolic form, material transformation, and experiential narrative. Their collaborative methodology allows the work to emerge through dialogue, friction, and synthesis, producing forms that extend beyond individual authorship.
Their practice spans gallery exhibitions, collectible design, monumental public sculpture, and site-responsive installations across the United States and internationally. Their work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Mexico City, Tokyo, and Dubai, and includes public and private commissions situated within architectural, cultural, hospitality, and civic environments.
