EDUCATION
Royal Drawing School - Postgraduate Diploma, The Drawing Year, London - 2016 - 2017
BA Hons Illustration and Animation, 1:0, Kingston University - 2002 - 2005
RESIDENCY AWARDS
Cill Rialaig Project, Eire, 2024
IASF, Lokman Hekim University, Ankara, Turkey 2023
No Boundaries Art Residency Wilmington, USA 2023
Moritz-Heyman Residency, Borgo Pignano, Italy 2022
Studio residency: Heatherwick studio space, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, Wales - July 2021
No Boundaries Art Residency Wilmington, USA 2019
Moritz-Heyman Residency, Borgo Pignano, Italy 2018
WORKSHOPS
Dere Darlunio - Drawing Socials Aberystwyth 2023
Ysgol Bro Tryweryn and Gwion Aled - Capel Celyn Film and Animation workshop 2023
Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Project - National Library of Wales 2021
Drawing Socials in Kampala, Uganda and rural Wales - hosting free community workshops - pasta machine printmaking and cooking charcoal drawings 2019
ARTIST COLLABORATIONS
Allmouth Gallery - postal art swap 2021
Substrate Swap - Tasmania, US, UK
Drawing zoom and mail art project, UK and US 2020
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
Capel Celyn Panels Artwork - Welsh Water, National Park and Cymuned Capel Celyn 2022
Llanrwst Children’s Library 2019
Hedd Wyn - Yr Ysgwrn - Trawsfynydd Commission, National Park 2016
BOOK ART
Commissioned by publishers, cover designers and art directors. Clients Included: Y Lolfa, Welsh Books Council, Hafod Cheese, The Folio Society, Penguin, Macmillan USA, Doubleday Canada, Harper Collins, Random House 2005-2015
AWARDS
Arts Council of Wales, 2020
Oppenheim John Downes Award, 2016
BIO
Dorry Spikes makes prints, drawings and paintings. Her work is influenced by language, place and memory. Group exhibitions include Nepal Arts Council, APT Gallery London, Ty Turner, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Paint Talk and Lido Stores, Margate.
STATEMENT
I have lived and worked as an artist in different parts of the world - drawing and painting in Uganda, doing book commissions in Spain and Tenerife, as first-mate aboard a sailing boat in Cuba and Mexico and helping to restore a ferro-cement boat in the DIY boat yard communities of the USA .
Travel informs my work and is how I navigate a shifting sense of home and belonging. I am interested in moments of connection and understanding and how hiraeth influences my lived-experience and recollection of place. My drawings from life are acts of devotion and attention. I make memory drawings and paintings to try and capture the particular sensory and emotional immediacy of an itinerant existence.
