Sarah Casey



Statement


Drawing – be it on paper, with objects or in space – is a means of exploring what it means to see, touch and feel experiences on the edge of our grasp. This has ranged from items of a dress collection which have been hidden away out of sight to cosmological exotica at the outer reaches of our universe. She is currently developing work in response to the precarious context of objects emerging from glacial melt.

My work is exhibited nationally and international, notable solo museum exhibitions at Kensington Palace (2013), The Bowes Museum (2015), Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada (2019), Drawing Projects UK (2023). Scottish artist in residence at the Royal Drawing School ( 2021) Henry Moore Artist Fellowship (2021-22), artist in residence at Musée d’Art du Valais ( Switzerland) 2023. I am professor in the School of Art at Lancaster University and based in Dumfries and Galloway.


Biography


Sarah Casey is an artist and researcher. She makes works with paper that test the limits of visibility and material existence. This practice reflects a fascination with the unseen, untouchable and unspoken.

 

Over the past decade she has taken her practice to  a range of challenging environments, working alongside archaeologists, medical practitioners, cosmologists and conservators to see what the activity of drawing may share with these other practices that must negotiate the delicate to reveal the unseen.

She initially studied History of Art with History and Philosophy of Science before retraining through postgraduate study in Fine Art. She was Visiting Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute (2021) and Professor in Fine Art and its Histories at Lancaster University, UK. She lives and works in Lancaster and Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.