Welcome Dorcas Casey!
We’re thrilled to announce that Bristol-based artist Dorcas Casey has been selected for a major public art commission at Welcome Building®. Since late 2023, Bricks Bristol has run an open call for all South-West artists to express their interest in developing this proposal. Those shortlisted were brought forward for an interview and presented their ideas to the Creative Commissioning Group, with Dorcas Casey awarded the successful winner selected to take her piece forward.
About Dorcas Casey
Dorcas studied Sculpture at Winchester School of Art and completed a Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at UWE. She is an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy and has a studio in Stokes Croft.
She makes processions and sculptures for Glastonbury Festival and exhibited her fabric sculptures at Dismaland. She was nominated to work as an artist for Artichoke’s PROCESSIONS in 2018, and was awarded a QEST Scholarship to study bronze-casting.
Dorcas won the ACS Studio Prize in 2021 and last year she was resident artist at Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre in Denmark supported by the British Ceramics Biennial.
She makes processions and sculptures for Glastonbury Festival and exhibited her fabric sculptures at Dismaland. She was nominated to work as an artist for Artichoke’s PROCESSIONS in 2018, and was awarded a QEST Scholarship to study bronze-casting.
Dorcas won the ACS Studio Prize in 2021 and last year she was resident artist at Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre in Denmark supported by the British Ceramics Biennial.
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Welcome Dorcas Casey!
We’re thrilled to announce that Bristol-based artist Dorcas Casey has been selected for a major public art commission at Welcome Building®. Since late 2023, Bricks Bristol has run an open call for all South-West artists to express their interest in developing this proposal. Those shortlisted were brought forward for an interview and presented their ideas to the Creative Commissioning Group, with Dorcas Casey awarded the successful winner selected to take her piece forward.
About Dorcas Casey
Dorcas studied Sculpture at Winchester School of Art and completed a Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at UWE. She is an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy and has a studio in Stokes Croft.
She makes processions and sculptures for Glastonbury Festival and exhibited her fabric sculptures at Dismaland. She was nominated to work as an artist for Artichoke’s PROCESSIONS in 2018, and was awarded a QEST Scholarship to study bronze-casting.
Dorcas won the ACS Studio Prize in 2021 and last year she was resident artist at Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre in Denmark supported by the British Ceramics Biennial.
She makes processions and sculptures for Glastonbury Festival and exhibited her fabric sculptures at Dismaland. She was nominated to work as an artist for Artichoke’s PROCESSIONS in 2018, and was awarded a QEST Scholarship to study bronze-casting.
Dorcas won the ACS Studio Prize in 2021 and last year she was resident artist at Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre in Denmark supported by the British Ceramics Biennial.
