Sarah Casey
b. 1979
Sarah Casey (b.1979) is Professor of Fine Art and its Histories at Lancaster University, UK. She studied History of Art with History and Philosophy of Science before retraining as an artist.
She has been awarded residences in the UK and overseas, including Royal Drawing School Scottish Artist in Residence (2021), Ryerson Fashion Research Collection Toronto (2017) and Musee d’ Art du Valais, Switzerland (2023). In 2024 she won the John Muir Trust Creative Freedom Prize for 3D work and the William Littlejohn Award from Royal Scottish Academy.
The work in this display was initiated when Casey was a Visiting Research Fellow at Henry Moore Institute in 2021-22. It was developed through her residency at Musée d’Art du Valais, in dialogue with Swiss archaeologists from the cantons of Valais and Bern.