Hi i’m Dionne
Dionne is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher, somatic facilitator and teacher, working across memory, ecology, embodiment and cultural practice through art, sound and collective Spacemaking.
She writes a newsletter-multimedia zine and is interested in us feeling more free to remember who we are by creating spaces for reflection, connection and transformation through her artworks, 1:1s and group facilitation for artists, creative Beings and organisations.
Workshops, facilitation, mentoring and collective practice
for artists, creatives, communities and organisations.
Writing, conversations and research from an ongoing practice of art, embodiment, ecology and Spacemaking.
──────────────────────────────────── RETURNING HOME AFTER 34 YEARS 🐳 A reflection on returning to Bequia, memory, place and belonging. → READ ──────────────────────────────────── MOVING THROUGH DREAMTIME AND SPACE 💫 dwelling in the gap-space between research, ritual, and belonging. → READ
──────────────────────────────────── ART IS EVERYWHERE 🖼 Notes on noticing, attention and the everyday conditions of creativity. → READ
──────────────────────────────────── TRYING COUNTS // an experiment in energetics 🌹 a new podcast! (recorded amongst the roses) → READ
──────────────────────────────────── MULTI-DIRECTIONAL PRISMS + EVER-UNFOLDING LIBERATION 🌐 notes on everyday refusal, hard edges and finding safe-enough anchors when the nervous system wants to hide. → READ ───────────────────────────────────
deep breath… ✨ make a wish! 💫
A little window into what I'm thinking, making, researching and listening to right now. It’s all connected 💫
🌱 RESEARCHING
water, memory + Caribbean archives (particularly Saba-Bequian and ever-Garifuna histories 🖤🤍💛
🐾 MAKING
my Downs to the Sea commission, the BLACCC podcast, a research paper, this site + archives
🧘🏽♀️ PRACTICING
summer adjustments on the mat, cooling the system, sitting, softening, soothing the pitta energies and surrendering to eclipse szn. more seasonal reflections here
📩 JUST SUBMITTED
final draft of my Covert submission (comes out in September!) + my Arts Council England-funded research trip report
🐚 DEVELOPING
Sketchbook as Sanctuary, sound walks, psychogeography + ways of listening and my show at Phoenix
🌀 REINTEGRATING
after fieldwork in Bequia and Vincy…
🎧 LISTENING
Alice Coltrane, studio playlist + field recordings
🍄 THINKING ABOUT
the space in-between, sanctuary, who’s ‘allowed’ + Other Ways of Being
🌺 OFFERING
an art print and ways to work together
→ VIEW ART PRACTICE PORTFOLIO
Today: Something short but hopefully a helpful reminder for those of you exploring the unknown, whether it might be a new season? A new life role? A new project, perhaps? A new day, or something else!
Have you ever felt it’s time to get up and out of a job, relationship or situation? But then start questioning or doubting yourself? Worrying that quitting somehow makes you a failure?
I feel you.
I’ve been there too.
✨ soften your jaw, receive your wish 🧚🏽
some reflections following my recent workshop Sketchbook as Sanctuary at UAL Chelsea Library in London (and more on: Spacemaking)
“We're vulnerable. We're sensitive. And we're complicated people, too.
So many people rolled into one.
We contain so much”
- Janet Jackson
wavy things (don’t be shy, say hi!)
instagram posting stories mostly
are.na gathering, thinking, feeling
spotify playlisting 2271 moods and counting
youtube free practices 4 u
patreon practice portal a space to land, library of practices (video, essays, podcasts +++)
email would be the best way to reach out to me.
feel welcome to follow up with me, i love to hear from you 💫
