Artist : Dorcas Casey 
Title : Goat
Medium : fabric, stuffing, thread, tape, polymer clay, steel wire, old furniture
Dimensions : 180 x 90 x 90 cm


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Dorcas Casey finds the starting point for her sculptures from remembered dreams. These images from the subconscious are often mysterious and elusive, yet sculpture is a way to articulate and preserve them whilst remaining ambiguous. Her work utilises ‘hands-on’ processes like stitching, mould-making, casting and sculpting with clay. She is drawn to familiar, domestic materials and objects, which are often linked in some way to her own memories. She responds to the idea of out-moded, discarded and marginal things returning as powerful presences which are poised between the realms of the familiar and the uncanny.

Casey is a Bristol based artist. She studied Sculpture at Winchester School of Art and completed a Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at UWE. She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, having been awarded a bursary. She xhibited her fabric sculptures at Banksy’s Dismaland and performed with her sculpture /costumes at Glastonbury Festival and Hauser and Wirth Somerset. She won the Public Speaks Award in the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize and her work features in the book The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture. She was commissioned to work as lead artist for Artichoke’s PROCESSIONS in 2018 and awarded a QEST Scholarship to study bronze-casting in 2019. In 2021 Dorcas won the ACS Studio Prize and was elected as an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy.