Part of the series curated by organic food grower and writer Claire Ratinon and artist and teacher Sam Ayre, artists Owen Griffiths and Davinia-Ann Robinson will be in conversation discussing their different approaches, backgrounds and experiences using the earth in their art and social practice. They will be exploring their relationships to colonial histories and how that is reflected in both their work and their ways of working.

Davinia-Ann’s practice examines how ‘Presencing’, fugitivity and tactility undo colonial and imperial frameworks through which nature and Bodies of Colour are articulated. This is done by exploring Black, Brown and Indigenous relationships to land and ‘Colonial Nature environments. Her work addresses personal interactions with ‘colonial emotions’ she has encountered, in local, national, and global environments as a Black Female Body, building on her intense relationship with earth as a living material explored through sculpture, sound, writing and performance. Davinia-Ann has been included in solo and group exhibitions and delivered public programmes within arts institutions, recent include: distinction between felt flesh – San Mei Gallery (2022), Radical Landscapes - Tate Liverpool (2022), Metabolic time / Am meitibileach - Project Art Centre, Dublin (2022), connections unplugged, bodies rewired - das weisse haus, Vienna (2021).