DANIELLE JACQUES
DJ | ARTWORKS is the creative practice of London-based multimedia artist Danielle Jacques, whose work explores the intersection of ritual, technology, and expanded perception.
With a background in fine art and a Master’s in Visual Arts: Fine Art Digital (Distinction, Camberwell College of Arts, 2020), Danielle blends analogue and digital processes to create immersive, sensory experiences. Her practice spans film, AI, live visual performance, and installation, and is deeply informed by meditative practice, electronic music culture, and embodied awareness.
Her creative process is rooted in what she calls "meditation-in-action" — an intuitive, rhythmic approach to making that draws on movement, stillness, and somatic listening. Whether composing visuals for ecstatic dance spaces or building layered physical environments, her work invites presence, resonance, and reconnection.
Danielle has exhibited at leading venues across London, including the Saatchi Gallery, and received the Mercers’ Arts Award in 2020. Beyond her studio practice, she collaborates with musicians, facilitators, and producers — crafting live immersive visuals for dance events, rituals, and performances that expand consciousness and support embodied collective experiences.
Her work moves fluidly between the gallery, the screen, and the dancefloor — unified by a single thread: a devotion to the art of awareness.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is a search for presence through visual rhythm, sensory immersion, and embodied process. Through photography, moving image, installation, and live digital performance, I explore patterns—whether found in nature, digital landscapes, or the pulse of everyday life—as gateways into expanded awareness.
My practice investigates digital and mixed-media environments as sites for meditation and transformation. I’m interested in how visual language can evoke altered states of consciousness — not as escape, but as deeper engagement with self, body, and environment.
I draw from diverse sources- electronic music culture, contemplative practices, and ritual performance to create works that are both conceptual and visceral. Increasingly, I use everyday materials alongside AI, and live visual systems to compose environments that shift and respond like living, breathing fields.
Whether working with light, pigment, projection, or sound, I approach making as a form of "meditation-in-action"—a practice of listening, layering, and allowing. I engage materials with sensuous attentiveness, letting texture, rhythm, and response guide form.
The resulting images, moving works, and installations become traces of contemplative process—blending organic and synthetic, analogue and digital, stillness and movement. They open a space between structure and fluidity, perception and imagination. The result is often layered, textural, and hypnotic — images and experiences that unfold over time.
I’m drawn to the tensions between organic and post-digital aesthetics, the remembered and the imagined, the solitary and the collective. I aim to create subtle interruptions in the everyday — portals through which viewers might encounter themselves, each other, or something beyond.
Ultimately, I aim to create work that supports moments of connection—within ourselves, with each other, and with the spaces we inhabit. I see my role not as a maker of fixed meaning, but as a choreographer of experience — one who facilitates insight, expansion, and possibility.