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THE BIG MYSTERY
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2024
Co-directs and creates soundwork for outdoor dance theatre piece From Earth We Grow: Seedling choreographed by Monica Brunello, stages in Parco Castello di Romeo in Montecchio Maggiore, Italy
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2023
Co-writes feature PRIVATES with American hit songwriter Jud Friedman
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2023
Cross sections studies culminate in a digital artwork for ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) and exhibits in Sydney
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2021
Writes Still Be-Longing follow on series of Be-Longing for Mad4 Films
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2020
Adapts critically-acclaimed memoir Oi by David L. Jackson into feature screenplay Snowball
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2020
Compiles the Subrealism Manifesto on the bateau Flottant on the Canal du Garonne in France
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2018
Travels to India and paints mural with kids of Lourdes Servite School, travels to Colombia for studio stay and new design musings
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2017
Gains representation with Lomaka Gallery London
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2017
Kicks off first sitting for travelling Lines in a Square project in Soho Square, visits The Berwick Street Cloth Shop to buy latex for cymatics experiments
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2017
Produces second short film as writer/director Unnatural Abstractions, film features track produced from Cityless Music Project experiments with Nico
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2016
Launches Dancing Around The World global film project, culminates with the eponymous dance documentary, receives an Award of Recognition from the Impact Docs Awards
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2016
Starts getting invited to artist residencies in Europe, delves deeper into her developing research on the creative process, and her art playground installation experiences

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2016
Takes an influential family journey on the bateau Flottant from Dutch city Zwolle down to Port de Paris Arsenal and revisits lined patterns inspired from childhood doodling
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2015
Pens multi award-winning short film Be-Longing for DrumCam Films
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2015
First short film as writer/director Wake Up produced by Raindance's Raw Talent, later distributed by dailymeTV, film features track produced from Cityless Music Project experiments with Nico
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2014 Music experiments with Swedish sound designer/composer Nicolas Lewentorp, experiments lead to future soundtrack releases
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2014 Creates video art piece Light Impressions for
Toride International Video Projection and has work screened as installation in JR Toride Station in Japan
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2014 Music experiments with South Korean hiphop/RnB-inspired composer/producer Jay 'Jaexwell' Byun
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2013 Launches the Creative Thought Space research project with first 30 creatives, sharing creative insights from around the world
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2013 Muses out in Australia, writes, paints, exhibits and creates an urban light projection for Yo Gobo/The Light in Winter

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2013 Music experiments with punk metal rock band Darkbeat, initial sparks for the Cityless Music Project
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2012 Writes and consults on further music-related screen projects, first a cultural TV series on African diaspora trends, next a documentary about London's Tin Pan Alley
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2010 Records a series of poetics pieces for Jotspeak at Soho's Dean Street Studios
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2009 Embarks on a decade of small group and solo art shows, exhibiting painting and video art in Australia, the UK, Europe, the US, India and Japan

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2008 Begins first video art experimentia with Body Canvases series, combining poetics and live drawing on the human body with Monica modelling, video gets picked up for 3rd International Urban Screens Conference & Exhibition in Melbourne and later screens in Berlin and Mumbai
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2007 Paints a commemorative painting x Tate Local for 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade Act
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2007 Music experiments with English composer Dave 'Scubert' Newby, experiments lead to future releases
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2007 Publishes first track "All You Want" used as theme song for 80s-inspired American indie short All She Wants To Do, song is nominated for Best Song from a Short Film at the Garden State Film Festival
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2006 Freelances as writer for animation studio C.H.A.S.E. Imagination on graphic novel series The Nightlings with pioneering LA-based publisher TOKYOPOP
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2006 Music experiments with Jake Fisher of indie Britpop duo Supalube and EDM-inspired Psyrok
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2005 Finds a pile of boards abandoned in the street and uses them to create her first London paintings
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2003 Lives in Veneto region of Italy for a period of time, paints and focuses on writing next features, one emerging from an out of body experience she has while there
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2002 Music experiments with Toni Moretti, Italian jazz double bassist, composer, arranger and President of Accademia Musicale di Schio

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2001 Publishes first poem "Darkness"
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2000 Music experiments with English composer Steve Price
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1999 Meets cinematographer Lindon Rankin and assists on first film project, a music documentary about Ghanaian drumming group Kakatsitsi
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1999 Joins the Writer's Lab and Cinematographer's Lab courses with London's Raindance Film School
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1998 Pens first complete feature-length screenplay Nomenclature based on a trompe-l'œil mural she drew on her bedroom wall featuring the pivotal streetlamp corner
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1998 Composes original instrumentals for college group and solo contemporary dance performances, her first collab with dancer Monica Brunello
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1997 Moves to London and buys her first keyboard on Soho's legendary Denmark Street
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1995-96 Studies Music Business Management at NMIT in Melbourne
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1990 Family moves to the Sunshine Coast where her high school years play out
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1978 Danni is born in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia with a childhood of tropical land and reef adventures

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