Drora Dominey was born in 1950 in kibbutz Merhavia. She studied art in Milwaukee, USA, and Cheltenham, London, and received her MFA in art from Central Saint Martins Academy in London.
Since 1980 she has been living and working in Tel-Aviv and is a senior lecturer in Bezalel Academy for Art and Design.
During the 80's her work stood at the forefront of Israeli sculpture, and she was considered to be a founding figure of a female sculptor and an educator of many students.
The start of her life as an artist in the 80's was marked by “forms and forces” (also the name of her finale work at St. Martins Academy) and by creating an original syntax that put together constructivist traditions and British modernist sculpture with a personal language of materials. Her work which favored wood over iron helped to establish the sculpture-furniture as a local idiom.
The "home interior", as Dominey called her works in those years, produced multiple variations on everyday objects and split their commonplace practical meaning from their function as sculptures. A domestic poem showing absence as a living thing.