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 Stokes Croft.  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. She is currently working on a major public art project for Bristol.

Education

2019 MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking with Distinction: UWE, Bristol

2011 First Class BA Hons Fine Art, Sculpture: Winchester School of Art

2010 Erasmus Exchange Placement: University of Seville, Andalusia

Awards

2024 Shortlisted: John Ruskin Prize
2023 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
Craft Potters Charitable Trust Award
2022 Project Grant: Danish Arts Foundation
2021 Winner of the ACS Studio Prize
FRESH Award Winner at the British Ceramics Biennial
Arts Council England DYCP Award
Royal West of England Academy “Early Career Academician’ Bursary
Gane Trust Grant
A-N Time:Space:Money Grant
2020 Arts Council England Emergency Response Fund
2019 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship in Bronze Casting

RWA Sculpture Exhibition Prize

Clifford Moss Prize for Sculpture
Eaton Fund Award

2018 Oppenheim – John Downes Memorial Fund Award

2015 Shortlisted: Brian Mercer Bronze Casting Residency, Fonderia Mariani, Italy

2014 Shortlisted: Jerwood Open Makers

2013 Royal Society of Sculptors Bursary Award

Public Speaks Award, Broomhill National Sculpture Prize

Projects / Residencies

2024/2025 Welcome Building Public Art Commission, Bristol
2024 The Spinney: Installation at Glastonbury Festival
Horses: Collaboration with Block9 Performers for Shania Twain Pyramid Stage performance, Glastonbury Festival.
Sculptural Installations for backstage Pyramid, Glastonbury Festival.
2023 Resident Artist: Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Institute, Demark
Peace Procession: Collaboration with Stella McCartney for Glastonbury Festival.
2022 Invited selector for the Royal West of England Academy Annual Open Exhibition
Turps Banana Mass Correspondence Course
2021 Live At Worthy Farm: Sculptural Installation for Glastonbury Festival Global Livestream
2020 Bricks Artist Programme: Ascociate Artist
2019 Extinction Procession, commissioned by Emily Eavis for Glastonbury Festival
Judge for Broomhill National Sculpture Prize.

2018 Lead Artist for PROCESSIONS, Somerset, produced by Artichoke, funded by 14:18Now

Resident Artist-Educator, Hauser and Wirth Somerset

Resident Artist: Threeways School, Bath

2017 MUSE: Makers in Museums, Residency in Bruton Museum

2016 Beasts of the Uncanny Tour

2015 Dismaland, Weston-Super-Mare

Exhibitions

2025 FAUNA, The Kenny Gallery, Royal west of England Academy, Bristol
2024 Ruskin Prize, Trinity Bouy Wharf, London
Dreaming in Fire, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
CaseSpace, Bruton Museum, Somerset
2023 British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Solo Exhibition, Apple House Gallery, Guldagergaard Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark
ACS Studio Prize x Gurr Johns, Pall Mall, London
Imbolc, Anima Mundi Gallery, Cornwall
2022 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Breaking With tradition: British Ceramics Biennial, Burton Gallery, Devon
2021 FRESH: British Ceramics Biennial, Swift House, Stoke-on-Trent.
Women Making History: London Scottish House, Westminster, London
Academician Candidates Exhibition, Royal west of England Academy, Bristol
10Gram Challenge, Royal Society of Sculptors, Dora House, London
2020 Collect 2020, Somerset House, London
2019 British Textiles Biennial, Brierfield Mill, Lancashire

Jurassic Moon, Caraboo Projects, Bristol

RWA Sculpture Exhibition, Bristol

Extinction Procession, (Performance) Glastonbury Festival, Somerset

FACET, Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol

Fresh off the Block, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Earth Story, Eden Project, Cornwall

2018 Beasts of the Uncanny (Performance) Hauser and Wirth Somerset

PROCESSIONS: Mass Participatory Artwork, London

RWA Autumn Show, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

Two Banners, One Voice: Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury

Miniprint: Arnolfini, Bristol

2017 MUSE Makers in Museums, Bruton Museum, Somerset

MUSE touring Show, Museum of Somerset, Taunton

2016 The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London

Beasts of the Uncanny (Performance) Glastonbury Festival

2015 Dismaland: Banksy’s Bemusement Park, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset

Casespace, Bruton Museum, Somerset

FreshAir: Quenington Sculpture Trust, Wiltshire

2014 Gravitas, Antlers Gallery, Purifier House, Bristol

2013 RBS Bursary Award Winner’s Exhibition, RBS Galleries, London

Broomhill National Sculpture Prize, North Devon

Our Autonomous Nature, Testbed 1, London

2012 The Open West: Gloucester Cathedral

Look with your Stomach and eat with your Eyes, Madame La Marquise, Barcelona

Publications

2020 Women Making History, Published by profile Editions
Glastonbury 50, Michael and Emily Eavis, published by Trapeze
2019 Banner Culture. Published by Mid pennine Arts.
14:18 Now: Contemporary Arts Commissions: Published by Profile Editions

2016 Are We There Yet?, Barry Cawston, Published by The Drugstore Gallery

2015 The State of Art, Sculpture and 3D Volume II, Published by Bare Hill Publishing

2014 The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture, Jac Scott, Published by Crowood Press

Press

2024 BBC Feature Interview, highlighting the contribution of Visual artists at Glastonbury, Festival, broadcast on BBC2
2021 Photographed by Anne-Katrin Purkiss for an exhibition of women artists in their studios exhibited in Dorich House, Richmond, London

2019 Selvedge Magazine, June Edition

2018 BBC 1 Live TV interview with Lauren Laverne
BBC Radio Somerset, Artist Interview
Project Photographs featured in The Times, The Guardian Observer Magazine, The Evening Standard, The Big Issue, Guardian Online and BBC Online

2014 BBC Radio Bristol, Artist Interview
Artist Interview: Scultorvox.com

Talks / Lecturing

Panel Discussion with Debika Ray for British Ceramics Biennial, Online
Tradition Redressed, panel discussion for Collect 2020 at Somerset house, London

Art Work, An Insight into the World of Textiles, Hauser and Wirth Somerset

Art and Suffrage Event, Women’s Library, London School of Economics
Art Bar, Inaugural talk, Renato’s Bristol
MUSE; Spring Seminar for Museums and Artists, RAMM, Exeter
Artists Professional development Day, Hauser and Wirth Somerset.
Sculpture Slam, Royal Society of Sculptors, London

Technical instructor in Casting and Sculpture, University of the West of England
Visiting Lecturer for BA Illustration and BA Drawing and Print, University of the West of England

Visiting Lecturer at Bristol School of Art and Design