WOMAN-WHOLE, YARA + DAVINA, London, 2025, Photo taken by Nick Turpin
YARA + DAVINA News:
We will be speaking at Modern Art Oxford on the 6th June discussing “What role can artists play in local government?” as part of The Sculpture X Policy Lab: Artists, Policymaking and Place.
WOMAN -WHOLE commission for ODAC:
We have just installed 3 permanent artworks titled WOMAN-WHOLE, around the Regents Park Estate, Camden. These subverted manhole covers explore women and what it means to be whole in a culture that constantly tells us we are never enough.
WOMAN -WHOLE II commission for North Gower Street, Camden Council.
We are in the process of finishing 3 new permanent artworks titled WOMAN -WHOLE II, on North Gower Street, Camden. These subverted manhole covers explore women, service and empowerment, with botanical references.
YARA + DAVINA’s current commissions:
MANIFEST, Policy Lab: MANIFEST, Policy Lab: We are Artists In Residence at Worthing & Adur Council. This is part of the second iteration of MANIFEST, a Policy Lab programme which supports artists, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to explore how their work can enrich policymaking. We will be speaking at Modern Art Oxford discussing “What role can artists play in local government?” as part of The Sculpture X Policy Lab: Artists, Policymaking and Place.
ORACLES: Over the next few months (from April 2025), we will be collaborating with Prof. Emily Selove, Associate Professor in Medieval Arabia Language and Literature and the Arts and Culture team, both at the University of Exeter (UoE) and national arts agency: Arts + Heritage on a speculative project linked to our ORACLES card deck. This project has been made possible thanks to a UKRI Impact Cultivation Fund.
Be The Change You Want to See, UP Projects and Elysian Residencies: We have just finished working with local residents in Blackheath, London to explore how we embrace and process change. Using semaphore and the art of communicating with flags, we are now developing a proposal for a public artwork for Blackheath.
101 Seedbed Artist Residency: We are working with Seedbed 101, developing a new work, in response to Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
Climate Change Machine: We are research and developing a new work that explores how we can shift our mindset around climate change from despair to hope. This project receives funding from a Horizon Europe project called VOICE. Through artist-led interventions (ATSIs), VOICE encourages citizen engagement to tackle local and regional environmental challenges effectively. To learn more about the VOICE community, visit the project website or social media channels.
Future Work
We are about to start a new commission with a national organisation and a regional arts venue, continuing our exploration of grief. We will officially announce more shortly.
