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Danielle Oke is an Australian English artist, writer, director and songwriter who creates under the artist name DMo. As an artist she has had painting, installation and video art exhibited internationally. In film she has had short films produced as writer or writer/director. As a songwriter she has written songs for independent film soundtracks.


History


Early life

Danielle Oke was born in
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, North East
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to English and Australian parents.


Career

In 2006 DMo was a freelance writer and researcher for animation studios C.H.A.S.E. London, working on a graphic novel series by Creative Director Robert Chandler, which was a collaboration with
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Publishers. Interconnection is a central theme in DMo's work. She started exhibiting her art publicly in small group and solo shows from 2007 onwards. She also began to use her art to help raise funds for charitable causes. One such project was the collaboration with Italian artist Zago for the
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fundraising project Zago and Your Friends (2011–12). In 2007 she had her first release as a songwriter for “All You Want”, the theme song for the short film ''All She Wants To Do'' produced by Suzanne Baynes / FreeWell Productions (release date 2008). The song went on to be selected into the
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’s Movie Music Competition 2008. In 2008 her first video art piece ''o.r.o.b.o.w. Body Canvas'' was screened at the 3rd International Urban Screens Conference and Exhibition in
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. It went on to screen at In a Planet of Our Own – A Vision of Sustainability from across Six Continents / AEC World Expo (2009) at the
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and again in 2010 at the Media Facades Festival at the Collegium Hungaricum
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in
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. In 2011 DMo penned and performed the track “Let’s Ride” with Dave Newby for the soundtrack of independent feature film ''Cherries and Clover'' produced by Pilot Pig Productions (release date 2013). In 2014 she started collaborating with Swedish sound designer/composer Nicolas Lewentorp on a music experiment project called Cityless, combining her beat poetics, melodies and vocals with his ambient, avant-electronica arrangements. Together they created the beat tracks for DMo's two short films “Wake Up” for ''Wake Up'' (2015) and “Something More” for ''Unnatural Abstractions'' (2017). In 2014 her first short film as writer/director ''Wake Up'' was produced by
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/ Raindance Raw Talent. The film screened the following year at the 23rd
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in
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. In 2016 the film was picked up for online distribution by German production company WEP Productions on dailyme TV. Her second short film as writer/director ''Unnatural Abstractions'' was shot in
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in 2016. DMo's films are often told from a subrealist context, exposing internal landscapes of characters via external happenings, locations, action, dialogue and other characters. Her creative studio is known as The Art Playground aka TAP, expressing her multifaceted artistic practice, and her approach to life.


Filmography

''Wake Up'' (2015) Short (writer, director) ''Unnatural Abstractions'' (2017) Short (writer, director, producer) ''Be-Longing'' (2018) Short (writer) ''Dancing Around The World'' (2018) Video documentary (director, producer, editor)


Songwriting credits


References


External links

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DMo's Twitter
{{DEFAULTSORT:DMo 1978 births Living people 21st-century Australian women artists 21st-century Australian artists Artists from Queensland People from Cairns Pseudonymous artists