Bio

Danielle’s Fine Art and Social Practitioner roles interconnect an integral golden thread through people, to place, nature and wellbeing, creating formats of social cohesion, through common dialogue, fun, stitch, digital media, lighting, doodles and play.
‘Hats Off Run Free’ project exhibition project- exploring art and natures resilience via dual projects at Signal Film and Media;- Source Digital Lab Artist in Residence and West Coast Project public art exhibition in June and October 2021, with a virtual solo exhibition in June 2021. GreenClose, Phoenix Art and Wellbeing project, with partnership with Recovery College and Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS trust funded by Arts Council (Danielle is an artist commissioned with mindfulness doodle and eco art workshops as socially engaged practitioner) Sept 2020 – July 2021.

Artist Statement 

Through art, as well as humour the communication cards project by Magical Women, could help explore further understanding and conversation to hidden disability through light heartedness confrontation, people don’t always see through these barriers-. This project could heal elements of past trauma from the hidden disability, where art has purpose, art has value, art can break down barriers, art can unite people and build confidences bridging gaps, art can communicate complex narratives through simplistic instant magic without words, unlocking confidence to their inner self to an advantage that can feed back into the community. This project fuses Danielle’s art practice and people focused approaches, that dually lift peoples spirits, develop community confidences through further awareness of neurodiversity and mental heath that by advocating through art and nature to wellbeing workshops and further interventions in her visual applied arts freelance work and eco art community projects and exhibitions can further ways of understanding in a wider community and resulting with disabled artists to be heard and valued and appreciated of what we can offer.

Magical Women

Through art, as well as humour the communication cards project by Magical Women, could help explore further understanding and conversation to hidden disability through light heartedness confrontation, people don’t always see through these barriers-. This project could heal elements of past trauma from the hidden disability, where art has purpose, art has value, art can break down barriers, art can unite people and build confidences bridging gaps, art can communicate complex narratives through simplistic instant magic without words, unlocking confidence to their inner self to an advantage that can feed back into the community. This project fuses Danielle’s art practice and people focused approaches, that dually lift peoples spirits, develop community confidences through further awareness of neurodiversity and mental heath that by advocating through art and nature to wellbeing workshops and further interventions in her visual applied arts freelance work and eco art community projects and exhibitions can further ways of understanding in a wider community and resulting with disabled artists to be heard and valued and appreciated of what we can offer.