Dawn Felicia knox
We welcomed Dawn Felicia Knox to D6 as an Associate Artist in 2023. Over a period of two years, the Associate Artists will act as critical friends to D6, looking both deeply and tangentially at the intersection of our programme themes and ethics of engagement.
Dawn is a multimedia artist working to create interventions and multi-layered installations that explore toxicity, remediation and transformation. She often works in collaboration with scientists, community members and fellow artists to collectively learn from the dynamic ecosystems we all inhabit.
In 2022, she was commissioned by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art to create an installation for the Hinterlands exhibition. Her work The Felling explored deep time, pollution and the way self-seeding plants remediate the post industrial landscape. This was investigated through one plot of land in Felling, Gateshead, which was a swamp during the carboniferous period, a working mine during the industrial revolution and is now a contaminated brownfield site. Dawn was able to study ferns found on the site 320 million years apart; some trapped in coal seam fossils and others on the site now working to undo the contamination still left by the extraction of coal. Through a further Arts Council England grant, Dawn is working in Ascus Laboratory in Edinburgh researching the way plants and fungi work together to undo the toxic residue of industrialisation.
Dawn has created many interdisciplinary projects and received numerous commissions resulting in installations, films and exhibitions across the UK and internationally. She worked with English Heritage to create Working the Stasis, which resulted in three interlinking exhibitions along Hadrian’s Wall that explored the tension between objects and the biological processes that work to degrade them.
As a curator she has worked with internationally renowned organisations, including the Amber Collective in dialogue with artists and community activists to facilitate wider conversations about ethics, representation and collectivism.
More information
dawnfelicia.com
Dawn is a multimedia artist working to create interventions and multi-layered installations that explore toxicity, remediation and transformation. She often works in collaboration with scientists, community members and fellow artists to collectively learn from the dynamic ecosystems we all inhabit.
In 2022, she was commissioned by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art to create an installation for the Hinterlands exhibition. Her work The Felling explored deep time, pollution and the way self-seeding plants remediate the post industrial landscape. This was investigated through one plot of land in Felling, Gateshead, which was a swamp during the carboniferous period, a working mine during the industrial revolution and is now a contaminated brownfield site. Dawn was able to study ferns found on the site 320 million years apart; some trapped in coal seam fossils and others on the site now working to undo the contamination still left by the extraction of coal. Through a further Arts Council England grant, Dawn is working in Ascus Laboratory in Edinburgh researching the way plants and fungi work together to undo the toxic residue of industrialisation.
Dawn has created many interdisciplinary projects and received numerous commissions resulting in installations, films and exhibitions across the UK and internationally. She worked with English Heritage to create Working the Stasis, which resulted in three interlinking exhibitions along Hadrian’s Wall that explored the tension between objects and the biological processes that work to degrade them.
As a curator she has worked with internationally renowned organisations, including the Amber Collective in dialogue with artists and community activists to facilitate wider conversations about ethics, representation and collectivism.
More information
dawnfelicia.com
collaborative doctoral AWARDDawn has been awarded a Collaborative Doctoral Award in collaboration with D6 and Northumbria University. Supported by the Northern Bridge Consortium, the PhD will focus on colonialism, climate crisis and mass human migration through decolonial processes of curation.
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