The Cork-born artist creating unique sculptures using unorthodox methods
Dorothy Cross brings Veins of Other to the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin until July 6.
The Cork-born artist Dorothy Cross has — in making her unique artworks — used materials as diverse as cowhides, taxidermied sharks and birds, a human heart and an Egyptian mummy. The heart was carried up the River Lee on the Irish Navy ship the LÉ James Joyce as part of Cross’ Heartship project in 2019, while the mummy features in the artist’s Kinship project, which she hopes will come to fruition later this year.
Cross’ methods of creation are not always so unorthodox; she also works with more traditional sculptural materials, such as bronze and marble. Her fascination with marble led to an unexpected problem at her last solo exhibition, at the Frith Gallery in London in 2022. Red Erratic, the largest of her sculptures, was — at 7.5 tonnes — so heavy that the gallery floor could not bear its weight and it had to be exhibited on a flatbed truck outside the gallery, and even then, for one night only.
