Artist bio:
Davinia-Ann Robinson’s (b 1987, Wolverhampton UK, lives and works in London) art practice and research ex- amine how tactility, presencing and fugitivity work to form an undoing of colonial and imperial frameworks of extraction, through which nature and Black, Brown, and Indigenous bodies are articulated within colonialism.
Davinia-Ann is a Stanley Picker Fellow – 2003, up-and-coming exhibitions include UCL – East, London, Public Art Commission, October – 2024. Recent exhibitions include No Man’s Land – ATP Gallery, London, May 2023, CCA Derry Londonderry, Northern Ireland– Fugitive Seeds, October 2022, San Mei Gallery, London, (Solo Exhibition) – distinction between felt flesh, June 2022, Tate Liverpool – Radical Landscapes (commission), May 2022, das weisse haus, Vienna – connections unplugged, bodies rewired – October 2021, Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania – October 2021, Kunsthal 44Møen, Denmark- Freedom Is Outside the Skin- June 2020.
Project:
“Through an Embodied Practice of Stillness” explores how artistic practices can unearth and understand racial traumas within Black and Brown bodies through ancestral and present-time encounters with white body supremacy. By creating sculptural installations, soundworks, and performances, the project draws on embodied knowledge from practices of stillness to transform racial trauma. It integrates Black feminist theories, somatic and spiritual practices from Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean lineages, and personal experiences with racial trauma. The project involves group rituals and studio practices with Black and Brown artists, utilizing clay and somatic practices to address grief and decolonial healing. Research includes Black feminist literature and community land liberation projects, aiming to create resources and sculptural installations that foster embodied care and agency in transforming racial trauma.
