Arting it up across platforms!

The Art Playground of DMo is a multimedia arts practice that connects through creativity. With signature material across moving image, visual arts, and music, DMo creates original, conscious art for and with international companies, creatives and audiences.

"Endless land and ocean adventures as a kid opened me to growing up in a living art playground, creatively interacting with life both above and below the surface. The Art Playground of DMo is my itinerant arts practice, curating a portfolio across film, art, music and other creative streams, as I continue to creatively and collaboratively interact with life across platforms, disciplines and existential spaces to create signature art and experiences internationally."

True to the art playground way, in addition to exploring the production and promotion of DMo arts, The Art Playground of DMo organizes international arts-related projects and events. Collectively this adventure is a vibing sphere of creative activity where people from all walks of life gather to imagine, play and create connective stories and experiences that boldly engage and enrich with artistry, curiosity, verve and wit.

DANIELLE OKE

Danni is a prolific artist seamlessly traversing the worlds of film, art and music. She is an award-winning scriptwriter and produced writer/director, an internationally exhibited artist of painting and video art, and a published songwriter and poet.
 
On her journey of unconventional pathways, Danni has brought her creative signature to projects with maverick creators and companies from indie obscure to acclaimed, both commercial and non-profit alike. She has collaborated with artists and communities around the world, highlighting, exploring, engaging and celebrating the creative influence we all have on life, believing this is where both our uniqueness and oneness shine. The Art Playground is where her wide-ranging endeavours come to light, and where she taps into the subtler realms of our existence to nurture connection through creativity.

The undercurrent flowing through all of Danni's creative adventures is her unique connection with life as a living oceanic, energetic art playground, moving through interwoven seen and unseen spaces that bring vibrant, curious and essence-bound experiences. She draws upon her succession of incarnations from her tropical Australian upbringing on land and in water through an interval in Melbourne’s rich arts scene, to early adulthood as a drifting fixture in London’s pulsating indie vibe, and cross-cultural experiences through Europe and beyond.
 
Both nature and inner and outer journeying allow Danni to dive beneath the surface where it's apparent that everything is connected. Her work hones in on inner technologies - our capacity to think, feel, connect - to remind and inspire her audience of their innate potential, their incredible expansiveness. All of this influences and breathes new life into her creation, experienced by film that is inside out storytelling, art that is vibrant simplicity and music that is ambient, conscious, experimental.
 
She produces work that encourages people to ‘see beyond’ - whether that's into an unseen realm, or past surface-level separations or differences - to connect and recognize connection. And consequentially to allow this connection to enhance our appreciation and enjoyment of the uniqueness around us, finding the beauty and wisdom in such difference and expansion.
 
Danni's work has been sourced and presented across a wide range of contexts including gallery, theatre, urban screens and film festival, and has been awarded various accolades.

TAP L.I.F.E.

The art playground way of life brings into awareness the ongoing process of creation we all play a part in. Recognizing the creative pulse at the heart of all life running through its artistic creation, DMo delves deeper into this with public initiatives that aim to nurture connection through creativity. DMo pays particular attention to creation's interconnected aspects of experiential learning, community gathering and creative documenting, exploring the opportunities they provide for cross-cultural exchanges, cross-disciplinary connections and the active pursuit of self-realization i.e. getting together, sharing experiences and learning something about ourselves and others! As creation is a living process and life is constantly being created anew, creativity is key to attuning global understanding of not only the arts, but also humanity and the nature we exist in symbiosis with. DMo believes through active curiosity and vibrant interdisciplinary inquiry into creativity and its role in life functionality, we can reveal innovative perspectives on artistic practice and issues or problems we face, both as artists and people...and have fun with it in the process!