Artist - Dawn Reeves
Summary
Contemporary visual artist, writer and facilitator currently focusing on performance art, undertaking an MA in Performance Practices at ArtEZ in the Netherlands. Dawn’s practice uses alter-egos who make performance works, public art interventions, film and action-paintings. Motivated by a continuing interest in transformative personal growth and extending beyond the self to support societal change, her research includes ideas of becoming and the networked self, how we build bridges from the “I” to the “we” and the role of the body in this; exploring collective versions of the self that build resilience, agency, empathy and avoid othering.
Writing is part of her work with thirteen published books and articles for UK public service press outlets. As a story activist Dawn facilitates the voices of others, facilitating creative and collaborative processes to enable new voices to be heard and published. Currently based in Nottingham UK, Dawn has worked in Germany, Nigeria and South Africa, Japan and Canada.
Artist development and residencies
2022-23
ECC Performance Art - Series of online courses: Performance-based film (VestAndPage), Archive and Documentation (Anja Foerschner) Inhabiting time (Marilyn Arsem) Performing Identity in the digital Age (Eleh Rah) From Idea to Execution (Marta Jovanovic)
Artist-in-residence – Broadgate Park, Nottingham UK (June-Dec Broxtowe Council)
·2021-22
National Film and Television School – Self-shooting Level 1 & 2, Sound level 1
Berlin Art Institute – 1month residency
·2019-2021
Berlin Art Institute – 1month residency
Universitat Der Kunst Berlin Summer Programme - Aesthetic Transformations
University of the Arts, Central St Martins London – Summer programme Painting from the imagination
City Lit - London – Introduction to Sculpture, Working in 2d and 3d, Abstract painting.
2018 and before
Birmingham City College - Art Foundation
Works: exhibitions and performances
·2023
Circular dynamics: The thinking Body - collaborator with lead movement artist Kim Bormann – performed at Fabric Nottingham
Full full, half half – short performance-based film, showings include Beeston Film Festival UK, (nominated for best East Midlands Film BIFA accredited) Koln Film Festival, Cannes Artist Film Festival (AVIFF), Stockholm Film Festival, Boden Fim Festival (Sweden) Shortstack Film Festival (Nottingham UK) and ECC Performance Art Exhibition: The Poetic Image (online)
Waiting to leave – Re-performance of original durational work by Marilyn Arsem, Broadgate Park UK
· 2022
Dazwischen - solo show and interview feature, 2 Chairs project space, Berlin
Dazwischen – public art intervention, expanded studio project, Broadgate Park – Nottingham
Dark gardens – 2 paintings in group show, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
· 2020/21
One story - Book illustration including thirty original drawings, curation and editing of 60 stories.
Our futures now – Curation and editing of story collection and commissioner of artworks for Barnsley Council
· 2019 and previously
We’ve got this – Curator of group show for Solace Conference NEC Birmingham
Town Halls: buildings, people and power - photography and curation for photographic book (Shared Press)
The meaning machine – co-designed inclusive facilitated performance Drama Koln
Basket Case, collaborator in inclusive public art performance, commissioned by Derby City Council.
Writer-in-residence – CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance
Professional memberships
Member of 2 Chairs – Berlin based project space - nomadic art collective.
Member and certified professional facilitator– International Association of Facilitators
Certified Change Agent – School of Change Agents, NHS Transformations UK
EU Gen-Y Cities facilitator for programme work included Creative and Cultural Strategy for the City of Wolverhampton
RENKEI – UK /Japan facilitator for 7 universities programme
Publications
These publications include 2 novels and curating 11 collections of short stories written by new writers that focus on different aspects of public life and social issues. Details at www.sharedpress.co.uk
Reeves, D. (2021) Our futures now. Shared Press.
Reeves, D. (2021) One story – councils, covid and better futures. Shared Press.
Reeves, D. (2019) Getting to the heart of it – improving children’s services. Shared Press
Reeves, D. (2019) We’ve got this – ethics, art, and public service. Shared Press.
Reeves, D. (2018) This leader can – make a difference on equalities. Shared Press. Commissioned by the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives.
Reeves, D. (2018) Town hall: People, buildings, and power. Shared Press
Reeves, D. (2017) We Know What We Are. Shared Press. (Fiction)
Reeves, D. (2017) Holding Up the Mirror: True stories of public leadership in a post-truth world. Shared Press. Commissioned by the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives. Reeves, D. (2016) Walk Tall: Being a 21st Century Public Servant. Edited Collection. Shared Press. Commissioned by the Local Government Association.
Reeves, D. (2016) Making Our Mark – International Edition. Shared Press. Commissioned by the University of Greenwich Edited Collection
Reeves, D. (2015) Making Our Mark – Student Experience. Shared Press. Commissioned by the University of Greenwich Edited Collection
Reeves, D. (2014) Change the Ending. Shared Press. Commissioned by the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives.
Reeves, D. (2013) Hard Change. Shared Press. (Fiction)
Contact
Email: dawn@dawnreeves.com Mobile: 07803600966 References available on request