William (Bill) Dorman

Bill Dorman is a Goulburn-based artist working in metal sculpture and jewellery. His distinct and recognisable style has developed over five decades of technical and teaching expertise, and has seen him repeatedly invited to international artist collaborations.
Dorman often describes himself as being ‘in dialogue’ with metal, bringing forth organic character from the inorganic. He has an iterative approach to synthesising and developing technical processes. Currently, he is exploring the surface qualities that texturing and forming sheet metal through hammering can provide.


Dorman’s recent works and exhibitions have explored his concerns around climate change, migration and the insidious disconnect from the natural world. In these, Dorman imagines evolutionary hybrids of boats with bird-like legs which become island gathering refuges for fungi figures. He gently questions the effect of the anthropocene on evolution through a whimsical and offbeat world of characterful sculptures.