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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, research, embodiment, 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.

Let's work together
 

FIELD NOTES

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! 💫

 

NOW

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

 

🐚 FIELD IMAGE

 
 

🎧 CURRENT LISTEN (subscribe to my latest studio playlist)

 

RECENT WORK

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RECENTLY (PODCAST ADVENTURES)

Podcast episodes
Come wander with me/us 🌻 // Episode 97 shownotes
Come wander with me/us 🌻 // Episode 97 shownotes
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Letting 'mistakes' lead to miracles 📀 // Episode 96 shownotes
Letting 'mistakes' lead to miracles 📀 // Episode 96 shownotes

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!

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What living on a superyacht in Monaco taught me about failure, freedom + trust ⚓️ // Episode 95 shownotes
What living on a superyacht in Monaco taught me about failure, freedom + trust ⚓️ // Episode 95 shownotes

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.

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Learning how to be 💆🏽‍♀️ // Shownotes for ‘I Feel For You’ podcast episode 94 (from the archives)
Learning how to be 💆🏽‍♀️ // Shownotes for ‘I Feel For You’ podcast episode 94 (from the archives)

In today’s podcast, we're exploring how to "be".

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✨ soften your jaw, receive your wish 🧚🏽

RECENTLY (BLOGS ARE ALIVE)

Blog
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Sketchbook as Sanctuary @ Chelsea College of Arts, London // reflections + my approach to my practice of running workshops

some reflections following my recent workshop Sketchbook as Sanctuary at UAL Chelsea Library in London (and more on: Spacemaking)

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An episode of my radio show: FEELINGS #9
An episode of my radio show: FEELINGS #9

Listen to episode 9 of FEELINGS here 🌈✨

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Feelings #5
Feelings #5

“We're vulnerable. We're sensitive. And we're complicated people, too.
So many people rolled into one.
We contain so much”
- Janet Jackson

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Face down burrito 🌯 // Practice with Dionne // Restorative yoga
Face down burrito 🌯 // Practice with Dionne // Restorative yoga

love and gentle wraps of tenderness 💜🌯

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ELSEWHERE

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 💫

 

thanks for stopping by! 💜 one last thing for the road?