Sarah Casey is an artist-researcher with a practice rooted in drawing. She typically works through dialogue with researchers outside the arts to develop methods of drawing that reflect on ideas of precarity, resulting in work that is contingent on time and environmental conditions such as light and heat. Since 2020 she has been working with archaeologists in Switzerland in response to glacial archaeology emerging from ice. This led to recent exhibitions in the Swiss-wide project Watching the Glacier Disappear (2024), at Henry Moore Institute Leeds (2025) and at Art Institute Shibukawa, Japan (2026). Recent awards include the Royal Scottish Academy William Littlejohn Award (2024), John Muir Trust Creative Freedom Prize 3d (2024) and a John Ruskin Prize (2025). In 2025 she represented Scotland at the British School at Rome as the recipient of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham BSR Research Residency (2025). She lives and works in Dumfries and Galloway.
Weather Eye is part of the Ice Watch series of work and the wider Emergency! project about matter emerging from glacial melt. It developed from fieldwork with glacial archaeologists while on residence Musée d’ Art du Valais (2023) when she began gathering sediment ground down by glacial action at the site and deposited by retreating ice. Back in the studio, this rock sediment, called ‘glacial flour’ was painted on to glass lenses, to cast shadowy images of the landscapes she witnessed, which by now already a view from the past.