Dd investigates social and political issues, seeking to unearth truths around challenging subject matter. Holding the belief that all humans are connected and all personal actions affect the greater community her work seeks to show how the actions of one can affect outcomes for others. This naturally leads to research into the imbalances of power within society, be it around the many pockets of inequality, including ; gender, social class, age, race. Understanding the human desire to belong and a need to be heard, feedback loops are often set in place within the artwork, so the viewer feels it has been responded to with the use of low-level technology. Thus the viewer shifts position from being a passive consumer of the work to that of participant, of having some authority over the piece or having contributed to it in some way. Not all works are interactive but all works are a comment on a need to connect, of the problems associated with categories that serve as boundaries that keep people in or keep others out. Materiality plays an important part in the work too, as different materials process within them a history and a ready-made narrative of their own. Dd uses this to her advantage producing work from a vast array of different materials and fabricates across many disciplines. Dd, is based in both Somerset, UK and in Lisbon, Portugal.

‘Belonging’ is a large-scale sculptural installation woven in willow. The willow balls are distinctly different from the nature they find themselves amongst. For protection, they swarm and huddle together. Their attempt is to settle into the landscape, however there is a tension and an awareness that they don't quite belong. They belong to nature, but not to the nature surrounding them.

Outdoor Sculpture