Discover Sarah Casey’s new work that explores the fragile state of glacial archaeology.
Discover Sarah Casey’s new work that explores the fragile state of glacial archaeology. Her delicate, atmospheric drawings and sculpture are inspired by objects emerging from ice in the Swiss Alps.
Taking its title from the scientific term for receding glaciers, Negative Mass Balance reflects on the unprecedented melting of alpine ice, which reveals ancient artefacts preserved for millennia. These discoveries provide rare insights into the past but also signify environmental change and uncertain futures.
Through drawing and sculpture, Casey examines these tensions, merging techniques of making and erasure, space and solidity. Her work investigates what is lost, what is revealed, and the shifting boundaries between human history and geological time.
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