ARTIST BIO

Ciara Dunsby (b.2000, Cape Town, South Africa) is a sculptor and installation artist currently living in Cape Town. She graduated with a BA(FA) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art (University of Cape Town), with distinctions in both her theoretical and practical studies. She was the recipient of the Simon Gerson Award issued by Michaelis School of Fine Art for her graduate exhibition.

In 2023, Dunsby exhibited her work in Johannesburg as one of the Cassirer Welz Award Finalist issued by Bag Factory Artists’ Studio in association with Strauss & Co. She completed an artist residency with FEDE Arthouse in Cape Town for two months, concluding in an exhibition held in Cape Town. She will be an artist in residence with Southern African Foundation For Contemporary Art (SAFFCA) for three months in September 2023.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The core of Ciara’s practice is informed by memory, specifically the relationship between memory and time in the context of familial life. She is interested in using her work to reflect the constructing, recording, and tracing of memory in a state of it slowly shifting, distorting, and deteriorating over time. Her work is concerned with the traces of memory found in objects left behind and the dialogues that form between objects of the past and present. Through her use of steel, cement, wood, collage and teabags, she is able to reflect this.

Cape Town / South Africa