Dorcas Casey

Dorcas Casey is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Bristol.
She is interested in dreams, intuition, folk rituals, memory and stories. She works with many different materials including fabric, plaster, bronze, and ceramics.
Dorcas studied Sculpture at Winchester School of Art and completed a Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at UWE. She is an Academician at the RWA and has a studio in Jamaica Street Studios in Bristol. She makes processions and sculptures for Glastonbury Festival and exhibited her fabric sculptures at Banksy’s Dismaland.

She was nominated to work as lead artist for Artichoke’s PROCESSIONS in 2018 and awarded a QEST Scholarship to study bronze-casting. Dorcas won the ACS Studio Prize in 2021 and in 2022 she was resident artist at Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre in Denmark supported by the British Ceramics Biennial. In 2024 Dorcas was shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize.

This year she installed Crocodile; her first major public art project in Bristol.