Davinia-Ann’s practice examines how ‘Presencing’, fugitivity and tactility undo colonial and imperial frameworks through which nature and Bodies of Colour are articulated. This is done by exploring Black, Brown and Indigenous relationships to land and ‘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 has been included in solo and group exhibitions and delivered public programmes within arts intuitions, recent include: Our Other Us - Art Encounters Biennial – Romania (2021), New Contemporaries, Colchester and London (2021), Being Here – Kupfer, London (2021), Slade Summer Show, London (2021), Earthlings – The Residence Gallery, London (2021), SH/FT – No Show Space, London (2021), I Am Unsure As To If It Is Still Alive – Quench, Margate (2021), 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 completing her PhD at Goldsmiths University and is a recipient of the 2021 SET Studio Prize.