Davina
and
Daniel
Davina's work with her artist partner Daniel Lehan
Break Up
Davina and Daniel are sadly breaking up after three years of being together. To help deal with their sense of loss; they sought comfort by asking members of the Finnish public to hug them...
Thank You for Making this Island so Beautiful
As part of Davina and Daniel’s residency in Suomenlinna during August 2009 Davina and Daniel worked with the open prison on the island. They were interested by the fact that firstly there was an open prison on a world heritage site (the whole island is a UNESCO World Heritage site) and that secondly there was little mention of it in any tourist information, despite the prisoners maintaining and caring for the whole island...
Suomenlinna - A Place to Spend Time
As part of Davina and Daniel’s residency in Suomenlinna during August 2009 Davina and Daniel worked with the open prison on the island. They were interested by the fact that firstly there was an open prison on a world heritage site (the whole island is a UNESCO World Heritage site) and that secondly there was little mention of it in any tourist information, despite the prisoners maintaining and caring for the whole island..
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Ferry Notices
Ferry Notices is a work in progress by Davina and Daniel whilst in residency on the Finnish island of Suomenlinna for the month of August, 2009…
Contested Ground
Contested Ground was an event curated by students from Goldsmiths MFA Curating and Royal College of Art Curating Masters on the 17 and 18 January 2009 at the 176 Gallery in London. During the afternoons, Davina and Daniel enlisted the help of gallery visitors to produce CLAIM a set of Davina and Daniel flags, which were then tied to the front railings at the front of the building…
Be Our Valentine
Be Our Valentine was a work included in the monthly Second Thursday evenings of performance, poetry, and music curated by Frog Morris, held at The Montague Arms in South London. During the evening of 14th of February 2008, Davina and Daniel established a vantage point from where they wrote, and addressed Valentine Cards to individual audience members who caught their eye…
Davina and Daniel reviewed in Curating Discourse
Davina and Daniel’s Eight Weeks of Change has been reviewed by Sinead McCarthy in the curatorial blog, Curating Discourse.
“Upon leaving the clinic I felt invigorated and happy. And surely this was their intention. They offered me some therapy; an offer of a collective experience, which I accepted and ultimately I felt in retrospect, that this made me feel better....”
›› read more8 Weeks of Change
Davina and Daniel turned their attention to the phenomena of the self-help industry, and the methods it employs to help people feel happy, by transforming Space Station Sixty-Five into an alternative self-help centre....
lonely heARTs goes to Kaunus Art biennial 2007
Biennial attempts to analyze expressions and potentiality of textile and to make an influence upon it....
Gorilla in the Roses
We are taught to handle books with respect. However, inspired by Joe Orton’s and Kenneth Halliwell’s defacing of books in 1967 at Islington Public Library, Davina and Daniel’s Gorilla In The Roses granted permission to cut and collage books....
Service Wash Tales
Customers waiting for their laundry to wash and dry at Tumble Wash, were invited to exchange stories about clothes....
lonely heARTs
lonely heARTs 2007, a Davina and Daniel project was a date-specific evening of romantic interactions and dialogues held at Space Station Sixty-Five in south London on Valentines Day 2007....
Street Recipes
What is your favorite recipe?....
© Davina Drummond 2007