Join us for the launch of Through an Embodied Practice of Stillness a new series of sculptural installations, soundscapes and film work by Stanley Picker Fellow Davinia-Ann Robinson, which explores encounters with stillness through the body’s engagement with somatic practices and raw and reclaimed clay.
Through an Embodied Practice of Stillness explores how racial trauma is held within Black and Brown bodies through ancestral, intergenerational and present-day encounters with ‘white-body supremacy’ and how embodied engagements between the body and clay can be conduits for undoing and dismantling racial trauma.
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Biography
Davinia-Ann Robinson (b Wolverhampton, lives and works in London, UK) is an artist of Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean ancestry. Her art practice and research are explored through sculpture, sound, writing and performance, examining how tactility, presencing and fugitivity, form an undoing of ancestral, intergenerational and present-day racial trauma. Davinia-Ann was appointed a Stanley Picker Fellow in 2023.
Encountered through corporeal engagements between her body, natural materials, the interactions formed through colonial violence and embodied pre-colonial, Creo and somatic healing practices, her research in tactility examines an engagement of a reciprocal practice and politicised accountability grounded in the ethics of mutual care and responsibility, relating to the care of nature, care of human and non-human beings, ancestral care of those who have passed, and those who are to come. Through these engagements, her work conjures embodied practices of refusal, creating communities of refuge and care, connecting to the land and connecting to physical and spiritual bodies.
Davinia-Ann is a yoga practitioner, trained with Iya-kin, a BIPOC-led program focused on rest for Black and Brown people and a Yoga Nidra guide, trained with Ashe Yoga Collective, which elevates BIPOC and queer voices.
