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Dana Leslie is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer based in Dundee, Scotland
Her art practice encompasses moving-image, installation, photography, print-making, and performance.
She often tackles political and feminist themes in her work, encouraging interaction and engagement. Through her artwork, she aims to intertwine the personal and the impersonal and eradicate the distance we put between ourselves and the stories we read. She wishes to change the role of the passive viewer to active participant by including onlookers in the narrative, further developing the themes of communication, awareness, and accountability.
Most recently, she has made a digital theatre piece for False Start Productions (funded by Creative Scotland) that resulted in a solo mini-exhibition at Fika Café and showcased her research in the V&A Dundee as part of the 16 Days of Activism campaign. She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, with first-class honours, where she won a publishing award for her dissertation thesis, and received a Master of Fine Art with distinction, winning the overall postgraduate award. She was selected to participate in Scotland + Venice’s Professional Development Programme, working at the 59th Venice Biennale, and was named Global Winner of Visual Arts at the Global Undergraduate Awards 2022.