DANIELLE JACQUES
DJ | ARTWORKS is the creative practice of London-based multimedia artist Danielle Jacques, whose work explores the intersection of ritual, technology, and embodied perception.
Working across film, AI, live visual performance, and installation, Danielle creates immersive visual environments that blur the boundaries between digital and physical space. Her work is deeply informed by electronic music culture, contemplative practice, and the rhythms of the natural world — particularly lunar cycles, seasonal shifts, and archetypal forms.
With a Master’s in Visual Arts: Fine Art Digital (Distinction, Camberwell College of Arts, 2020), her practice combines analogue sensitivity with digital systems to produce layered, responsive visual worlds. These environments unfold in galleries, on screen, and within collective spaces such as ecstatic dance — where visuals become part of a shared, embodied experience.
At the heart of her work is what she describes as meditation-in-action: an intuitive, process-led approach that draws on movement, stillness, and somatic awareness. Through this, she composes visual fields that feel alive — shifting, rhythmic, and attuned to the energy of a space.
Danielle has exhibited at venues including the Saatchi Gallery and is the recipient of the Mercers’ Arts Award. Alongside her studio practice, she collaborates with DJs, facilitators, and producers to create immersive visual journeys for performance, ritual, and contemporary gathering spaces.
Her work moves fluidly between the gallery, the screen, and the dancefloor — unified by a commitment to creating environments that invite presence, connection, and transformation.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores how immersive visual environments can act as sites of presence, transformation, and embodied awareness.
Working across moving image, projection, installation, and live visual performance, I create layered sensory fields that unfold over time — drawing viewers into a space between observation and participation. These environments are often informed by patterns found in nature, digital systems, and archetypal imagery, particularly those connected to lunar cycles and the changing seasons.
My practice is rooted in what I describe as meditation-in-action: an intuitive, process-led approach that emerges through rhythm, repetition, and somatic listening. Rather than imposing fixed forms, I work responsively — allowing materials, visuals, and environments to evolve through interaction and attention.
I am interested in how digital and mixed-media languages can evoke altered states of perception — not as escapism, but as a way of deepening connection to the body, the present moment, and the surrounding environment. My work often sits at the intersection of the organic and the synthetic, the symbolic and the sensory, the individual and the collective.
In live contexts, particularly within dance and ritual spaces, my role shifts from image-maker to choreographer of experience. Visuals become part of a larger ecosystem — interacting with sound, movement, and atmosphere to support collective states of immersion and expression.
Across all formats, I aim to create subtle portals — environments that invite viewers to slow down, feel more deeply, and encounter themselves and each other in new ways.