Dulcie Davy explores the invisible process of self-repair following trauma through sculpture and speculative world-building. She uses the cyborg as a metaphor for transformation, making visible the emotional labour of rebuilding that often takes place privately and without recognition. Rather than concealing the evidence of healing, her work presents it as something worthy of being seen. Her sculptures dwell in the tension between vulnerability and power, asking what might happen if the marks of survival became symbols of beauty and evolution rather than something to hide.

Drawing upon Black Feminist Afrofuturist thought, she centres Black women as the lens through which she explores these ideas, reflecting on how strength is so often expected of them whilst the labour required to achieve it remains overlooked. With years of experience working in clay, her practice has recently expanded during her studies on the Sculpture MA at the Royal College of Art, combining 3D scanning, digital fabrication, chrome finishes, hand-braided cable-wire hair and mechanical components. She constructs cyborgian bodies in which every augmentation carries conceptual weight; reflective surfaces, embedded chronometric mechanisms and technological interventions become material metaphors for healing, memory and the reclaiming of time.

Alongside her sculptures, she writes fragments of speculative fiction that expand the conceptual framework surrounding the work. These texts imagine a future cyborgian civilisation in which bodily augmentation has become an evolutionary force and cable-wire hair functions as communication technology. Rather than illustrating the sculptures, the narratives extend their ideas, imagining futures in which visible repair is not understood as damage, but as the very force through which individuals, and entire civilisations, evolve.

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She has showcased her works at various Soho House Studios, held multiple painting and sculpting events, featured her art on Oxford Street, collaborated with music artists and brands such as Apple and Tommy Jeans. In addition, Dulcie has amassed a following of over 55,000 across social media platforms.

Dulcie produced, curated and featured in the exhibition Timeless Innovation: The Contemporary Black Woman at Battersea Arts Centre, putting together a group of young, Black, female artists to display their artwork celebrating Black women’s innovation throughout history. Read more about the exhibition and watch the short film here.

Davy Wokshops, created and led by Dulcie for 4 years, were free creative workshops for teenage girls in London supported by Battersea Arts Centre.