Davinia-Ann Robinson

Biography

Davinia-Ann Robinson

Born 1987, Wolverhampton, UK

Lives and works in London

Davinia-Ann’s practice examines how ‘Presencing’, fugitivity and tactility undo colonial and imperial frameworks through which nature and Bodies of Colour are articulated, by exploring the relationship between Black, Brown and Indigenous soil conservation practices and what she terms as ‘Colonial Nature environments’. Her work addresses personal interactions with ‘colonial emotions’ she has encountered, in local, national and global environments as a Black Female Body, building on her intense relationship with soil as a living material explored through sculpture, sound, writing and performance.

Davinia-Ann is currently studying in her final year at the Slade School of Fine Art on the MFA Sculpture programme, She has been included in solo and group exhibitions and delivered public programmes within arts intuitions, recent include: Tactile Belonging - Mimosa House London (2021) Bold Tendencies, London (2020), Freedom Is Outside the Skin - Kunsthal 44Møen, Denmark (2020), Working Progress - South London Gallery, February and August (2020), PRESENCE - Deptford X, London (2019), The Politics of Pleasure, Genealogies Series, PLASTICISED SENSATION – ICA, London (2019).

Davinia-Ann is a recipient of the Felix Slade Scholarship 2019-2021 and a recipient of the 2021 SET Studio Prize. She is also founding member of Narration Group an art collective for Women and Non-binary People of Colour.

Education

2021 MFA The Slade School of Fine Art, Sculpture Programme, London, UK 

2010 BA Hons, Art Practice 2:1, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

2007 Foundation Studies Diploma, Camberwell College, University of The Arts London, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2019

PRESENCE, Deptford X Supported, London, UK

PLASTICISED SENSATION, Politics of Pleasure, ICA, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2021 

EARTHLINGS MMXXI, The Residence Gallery, London, UK

SH/FT, No Show Space, London, UK

2019

I Am Unsure As To If It Is Still Alive, Quench, Margate, UK

2020

Working Progress, South London Gallery, London, UK

Bold Tendencies, London, UK

Freedom Is Outside the Skin, Kunsthal 44Møen, Askeby, Denmark

Working Progress, South London Gallery, London UK

2019

CINDYYYYYYYY, Slade MFA Sculpture Year 1 Group Show, SET, London, UK

BBZ Alternative Graduate Show, London, UK

Summer Exhibition, The Florence Trust, London, UK

2018

Platform for Emerging Artists, Leyden Gallery, London, UK

Delivered Talks / Workshops / Programmes

2021

Tactile Belonging, Mimosa House, London, UK

2020

Room To Room, Goldsmiths CCA London, UK

The Future is a Collective Project “Gathering,” Deptford X, London, UK

We Become With Each Other Or Not At All, Kunsthal 44Møen, Askeby, Denmark

Consent and Structures Workshop, Wellcome Collection, London, UK

2019

PRESENCE Workshop for Women Of Colour, Deptford X, London, UK

Politics of Pleasure, Artist Talk, ICA, London, and The University of Kent

Politics of Pleasure, PRESENCE Workshop for Women and Non-Binary People Of Colour, ICA London, UK

As part of collective Narration Group, CURRICULUM; series of in-conversations and workshops, South London Gallery, London, UK

Politics of Pleasure, Artist Talk, ICA London, UK

Art Collectives

Earthlings, June 2021 - Ongoing

Other Ecology (Co-founding Member), March 2021 – Ongoing

Narration Group (Founding Member), An art Collective for Women and Non-Binary

People of Colour Jan 2019 – Ongoing

Publications

Residency 11:11 Garden, Cook, Sing - May 2020

CURRICULUM FOR CREATIVE PRACTICE - 2019

Awards

Free Studio Prize, SET, 2021 - 2022

The Felix Slade Scholarship, The Slade School Of Fine Art 2019 - 2021

Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice, 2018 - 2019

Eckley Lacey Textile Award, Goldsmiths University Of London 2010

Artist Educator Work

The South London Gallery, Artist Educator, Supersmashers, London- 2019/20

Tate Modern, Protest Studio, London December-2019/ February 2020