Bloodlines
Dorothy Cross’s Bloodlines series comprises unique works that layer archival photographs with hand-poured, red-veined glass. Taken by the artist’s father in the 1940s, these images reveal an inherited fascination with the sea—a personal history caught within a geological frame.
Dorothy Cross
Bloodlines Series (Jackknife dive), 2025
"The images are still visible through that flow of red, adding almost a layer of physicality. It doesn’t matter if you know or don’t know that they are my parents – they are images of people that once existed, caught in time."
Dorothy Cross
Dorothy Cross
Bloodlines Series (Under sail), 2024
About the Artist
Dorothy Cross
Born in Cork, Ireland in 1956, Cross is a renowned Irish contemporary artist known for sculpture, photography, and film that explore themes of gender, identity, the body, and nature, often incorporating elemental materials like marble, gold and found oceanic elements.