TRINITY ROAD, OLD MARKET, BRISTOL
Artist: Dorcas Casey
Client: The Guinness Partnership
Bronze casting: Castle Fine Arts Foundry
Artist Dorcas Casey is making a new public sculpture for Trinity Road in Bristol’s Old Market.
Dorcas’ sculpture centres on the gentle roe deer, an animal associated with folklore and transformation. Made from clay and familiar clothing fabrics, this richly textured sculpture will be cast in bronze using the ancient ‘lost-wax’ process. The deer will be silhouetted against the sky, appearing high up above the gateway at Trinity Road, a mysterious presence inviting you to look up.
“Roe Deer are small deer often found in the margins of urban space. They are gentle and nimble and can sometimes be seen at twilight. They are increasingly finding their way further into cities, one was even spotted running through the middle of Old Market Street.”
Produced by Ginkgo Projects as part of a new residential development on Trinity Road, delivered by The Guinness Partnership.
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Dorcas working in her studio creating the deer sculpture, courtesy the artist
About the artist
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.