Latest Shape collaboration: Davinia-Ann Robinson was shortlisted for the Adam Reynolds Award in 2024.

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Artist Statement: 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.

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.

Image still from commissioned film 'between body and clay', 2025.

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Banner Image: Image still from commissioned film ‘between body and clay’ (2025). A large expanse of dried brown clay fills the image. Slight shadows are cast across this uneven clay landscape, almost resembling a martian terrain. The clay is globular and uneven like its been excavated or broken apart.