What's on Calendar Through an Embodied Practice of Stillness by Davinia-Ann Robinson Opening Times Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (during exhibitions) As part of the ARA Shortlist 2024, Davinia-Ann Robinson was commissioned to make a new moving image work titled 'between body and clay' which is featured in this new exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery. Visit the exhibition website Find out more about the ARA Shortlist Learn more about Davinia-Ann About the exhibition: The exhibition Through an Embodied Practice of Stillness is a new series of sculptural installations, soundscapes and film work by Stanley Picker Fellow Davinia-Ann Robinson, which explores encounters with stillness (Sharpe, 2023:241) 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. Healer and psychotherapist Resmaa Menakem states, “[…] white-body supremacy doesn’t live in our thinking brains, it lives and breathes in our bodies. […] The body is where we fear, hope, and react; where we constrict and release; and where we reflexively fight, flee, or freeze. If we are to upend the status quo of white-body supremacy, we must begin with our bodies” (2017; 5). Framed by Black Feminist Thinking as ‘presencing’ (De Finney, 2014:30), (Lewis, 2017), and ‘fugitivity’ (Spillers, 2003), (Gumbs, 2016), the works in the exhibition are a catalyst for ‘blackened knowledge’, accessed through embodied practices with clay that enable encounters exploring ancestral decolonial knowledge-based systems held within Black and Brown bodies, and accessed as pre-colonial and Creole spiritual practices, that become intimate practices of grief-work, spiritual activism and practices of care. A programme of FREE associated events will run throughout the exhibition. Details to be announced soon on the Stanley Picker Gallery website. Accessibility All public spaces at the Stanley Picker Gallery are ground-floor and step-free. Dedicated accessible parking is located right outside the Gallery. Please call us on 0208 417 4074 if you have any questions to assist with planning your visit. There are accessible public toilets, with baby changing facilities, available onsite. Prepare for your visit to the exhibition and check out Stanley Picker Gallery's access and information page on their website. Find out more about the Fellowship Check out Davinia-Ann's Website Booking for this event has now closed. Manage Cookie Preferences
Opening Times Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (during exhibitions) As part of the ARA Shortlist 2024, Davinia-Ann Robinson was commissioned to make a new moving image work titled 'between body and clay' which is featured in this new exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery. Visit the exhibition website Find out more about the ARA Shortlist Learn more about Davinia-Ann About the exhibition: The exhibition Through an Embodied Practice of Stillness is a new series of sculptural installations, soundscapes and film work by Stanley Picker Fellow Davinia-Ann Robinson, which explores encounters with stillness (Sharpe, 2023:241) 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. Healer and psychotherapist Resmaa Menakem states, “[…] white-body supremacy doesn’t live in our thinking brains, it lives and breathes in our bodies. […] The body is where we fear, hope, and react; where we constrict and release; and where we reflexively fight, flee, or freeze. If we are to upend the status quo of white-body supremacy, we must begin with our bodies” (2017; 5). Framed by Black Feminist Thinking as ‘presencing’ (De Finney, 2014:30), (Lewis, 2017), and ‘fugitivity’ (Spillers, 2003), (Gumbs, 2016), the works in the exhibition are a catalyst for ‘blackened knowledge’, accessed through embodied practices with clay that enable encounters exploring ancestral decolonial knowledge-based systems held within Black and Brown bodies, and accessed as pre-colonial and Creole spiritual practices, that become intimate practices of grief-work, spiritual activism and practices of care. A programme of FREE associated events will run throughout the exhibition. Details to be announced soon on the Stanley Picker Gallery website. Accessibility All public spaces at the Stanley Picker Gallery are ground-floor and step-free. Dedicated accessible parking is located right outside the Gallery. Please call us on 0208 417 4074 if you have any questions to assist with planning your visit. There are accessible public toilets, with baby changing facilities, available onsite. Prepare for your visit to the exhibition and check out Stanley Picker Gallery's access and information page on their website. Find out more about the Fellowship Check out Davinia-Ann's Website