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.
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 💫
