@davinia_ann
davinia.ann.robinson@gmail.com
Davinia-Ann Robinson - she/they, (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.
Encountered through corporeal engagements between her body, natural materials, the interactions formed through colonial violence and embodied pre-colonial, creole 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.
Fellowships
Stanley Picker Fellow in Art & Design 2023
British Council Fellow - Bundanon, Australia NWS, July 2026
Residencies
Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Artist in Residence, Schools Programme 2022 - 2023
Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania – 2022
The Florence Trust, London - 2018/19
The South London Gallery, Artist Educator, Supersmashers, London -2019/20
Exhibitions
Stanley Picker Gallery - (Solo Exhibtion) Through an Embodied Practice of Stillness, September 2025
OFF Biennale, Budapest, Hungary, May 2025
Conglomerates, Surface Matters, London, December 2024
No Man’s Land, APT Gallery, London - This Is the House That Jack Built May 2023
Hannah Barry Gallery, London - Raw Nerves, November 2022
CCA Derry Londonderry, Northern Ireland – Fugitive Seeds, October 2022
San Mei Gallery, London, solo exhibition – distinction between felt flesh, June 2022
Skelf Projects, online – Two Hypersaline Waters, May 2022
Tate Liverpool, – Radical Landscapes May 2022
Project Art Centre, Dublin- Metabolic time / Am meitibileach - February 2022
Thameside Studios, London Terrestrial Act II – November 2021
South London Gallery, New Contemporaries, London- November 2021
das weisse haus, Vienna -connections unplugged, bodies rewired – October 2021
Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania - October 2021
Firstsight, New Contemporaries, Colchester - September 2021,
Royal Theatre, New Castle- Terrestrial Act I – August 2021
Kupfer, London - Being Here, - July 2021
Slade Summer Show, London - July 2021
The Residence Gallery, London - Earthlings, - June 2021
No Show Space, London – SH/FT, Group Show – May 2021
Quench, Margate - I Am Unsure As To If It Is Still Alive, Duo Show - April 2021
South London Gallery, Working Progress,– August 2020
Bold Tendencies, London - August 2020
Kunsthal 44Møen, Denmark- Freedom Is Outside the Skin, Group show - June 2020
South London Gallery Working Progress,– February 2020
CINDYYYYYYYY, SET Dalston, London– November 2019
Deptford X Supported, London- PRESENCE (Solo Show) – November 2019
ICA, London Politics of Pleasure, PLASTICISED SENSATION (Solo Show) – July 2019
BBZ Alternative Graduate Show, London – July 2019
The Florence Trust, Summer Exhibition, London – 2019
South London Gallery, as part of collective Narration Group PERIPHERY - May 2019
The Florence Trust, Winter Open, London – February 2019
Leyden Gallery, London Platform for Emerging Artists 18 – June 2018
Delivered Talks / Workshops / Programmes
PSSA - Approaches to Unfired Clay, October 2025
Stanley Picker Gallery, October 2025
Tate Modern - Teachers CPD Workshop February 2024
Tate Modern - Teachers CPD Workshop October 2023
Tate Modern, London - Material Experiments, February 2023
Mimosa House, London, Tactile Belonging, November 2020 – February 2021
Goldsmiths CCA, London, Room To Room, July 2020 – September 2020
Deptford X, London, The Future is a Collective Project “Gathering”- October 2020
Kunsthal 44Møen, Denmark, We Become With Each Other Or Not At All – August 2020
Welcome Collection, London, Consent and Structures Workshop - January 2020
Deptford X, London, PRESENCE Workshop for Women Of Colour - November 2019
ICA and The University of Kent, London, Politics of Pleasure, Artist Talk – October 2019
ICA, London, Politics of Pleasure, PRESENCE Workshop- July 2019
South London Gallery, as part of collective Narration Group, CURRICULUM series of in-conversations and workshops September - November 2019
ICA, London, Politics of Pleasure, Artist Talk - July 2019
Art Collectives
Narration Group (Founding Member), An art Collective for Women and Non-Binary People of Colour Jan 2019 – 2021
Publications, Podcasts & Interviews
Radical Landscapes: Art, Identity and Activism
https://shop.tate.org.uk/radical-landscapes-art-identity-and-activism/26935.html
CORPOREAL INTIMACIES: THROUGH TACTILE KNOWLEDGES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, August - 2021
Sculptors on Sculpture – February 2021
Residency 11:11 Garden, Cook, Sing - May 2020
https://www.residencyeleveneleven-online.co.uk/garden-cook-sing
CURRICULUM FOR CREATIVE PRACTICE - 2019
https://issuu.com/bigfamilypress/docs/curriculum_for_collective_practice_-_final_scanned
Awards/ Funding
Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Shortlisted Artist – 2024
Women’s Art Library & Feminist Review – 2023
University College London, Dean’s List, Arts and Humanities 2021
Arts Council, Developing Your Creative Practice 2021- 2022
UCL East Provosts Art Prize 2021
Slade Print Fair Scholarship Prize 2021
SET, Free Studio Prize 2021 - 2022
The Felix Slade Scholarship, The Slade School Of Fine Art 2019-2021
Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice 2018-2019
Artist Educator Work
Tate Modern – Young Peoples programme (up and coming – July 2023)
Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Artist in Residence, Schools Programme 2022 - 2023
Tate Modern, Protest Studio, London December-2019/ February 2020
The South London Gallery, Artist Educator, Supersmashers, London-2019/20
Education
CREAM – University of Westminster PhD Researcher, Current (Techne Studentship)
The Slade School of Art, 2019 - 2021 Masters of Fine Art, MFA, Distinction
Goldsmiths, University of London 2007 - 2010 Art Practice 2:1 BA Hons
Camberwell College, University of The Arts London 2006 - 2007 Foundation Studies Diploma