DANIELLE JACQUES
DJ | ARTWORKS presents the work of London-based British multimedia artist Danielle Jacques.
Danielle is a multimedia artist whose practice explores altered states of consciousness through blending tangible and virtual forms. She holds a Master’s in Visual Arts: Fine Art Digital (with Distinction) from Camberwell College of Arts (2020).
Her work draws on diverse influences, including meditative practices and electronic music culture. Using a distinctive process to transform everyday materials, Danielle creates sensory experiences that invite audiences into new ways of perceiving the world around them.
She has exhibited in numerous group shows across London, including at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery, and received the Mercers’ Arts Award in 2020.
Alongside her studio and exhibition practice, Danielle collaborates with event producers, facilitators, and community organisers. She creates immersive visuals and installations for club nights, ecstatic dance events, and arts festivals, designed to deepen connection and enhance the atmosphere.
Danielle works across print, digital, and immersive media, and is open to collaborations, commissions, and project-based partnerships—whether in a gallery, a field, or on a dancefloor.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice is rooted in an ongoing exploration of Wu Li—the patterns of organic energy that flow through all things—and how they serve as a gateway into altered states of consciousness. What started as a way to cope with the demands of modern life through mindfulness and meditation has blossomed into a deeper investigation into how these subtle energies shape our perception and experience of reality.
Through photography, video, and installation, I use Wu Li as a way into altered states. The patterns I observe in the world around me—whether in nature, the digital realm, or the rhythms of everyday life—become my entry points into heightened states of awareness. Drawing from influences like Buddhist meditation, electronic rave culture, and shamanic rituals, I approach my materials with a sense of presence, allowing their energy to guide my process.
I engage with ink, water, and new media in a way I describe as “meditation-in-action.” With sensuous attentiveness, I explore these materials closely—paying attention to their texture, form, and colour—while allowing them to guide me into moments of stillness or movement. Through repetition and careful observation, I enter a state where the energy of the materials connects me to something larger than myself, uncovering new patterns, forms, and experiences along the way.
The work that results from this process—photographs, films, and prints—becomes a record of these meditative journeys. By intertwining analogue and digital techniques, I create a dialogue between the physical and the virtual, between the real and the imagined. These visual meditations become portals through which the viewer can enter a space of heightened awareness and perception, where the lines between the material world and the energies that govern it become blurred.
Ultimately, I aim to create work that not only reflects my own experiences of altered states but invites the viewer to enter these states themselves. Through engaging with these works, I hope to offer a way to explore the unseen currents of the world—those subtle energies that shape our inner and outer realities—and to experience the sublime art of awareness.