BEATRICE DILLON

Beatrice Dillon is an artist and composer known for her work across electro-acoustic and computer music, performance, and sound. Her practice spans intimate, experimental works to large-scale, multi-channel sound installation.

She has performed and presented her work at major institutions across UK, EU, Japan, North America. Her 2020 album 'Workaround' (PAN), was named The Wire magazine’s Album of the Year. The album's artwork is by German photographer, Thomas Ruff. In 2023, Dillon was remix producer for legendary Senegalese artist, Baaba Maal, and album producer for Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske (Smalltown Supersound).

In recent years, Dillon's practice has expanded to include acoustic composition. In 2024, the London Symphony Orchestra premiered Dillon's first orchestral work, written for 40 players ’Sift: Piano, Vibraphone, Other...’. A subsequent performance by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was recorded for BBC Radio 3. Dillon’s 2024 album ‘Seven Reorganisations’ was written for and performed by contemporary-classical group, Explore Ensemble, originally commissioned by artist Mark Fell. ‘Seven Reorganisations’ is the inaugural album release on Dillon's own label, HI (2024).

Originally trained in fine art in London, she has collaborated widely with international visual artists. Most recently as performance and film soundtrack composer for '30 Blizzards', by artist Helen Marten, presented by Miumiu at Art Basel Paris, October 2025.

Dillon's latest solo record ‘BASHO’ (Portraits GRM, 2025), was commissioned for the Acousmonium sound diffusion system at GRM Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris. The title of the work is taken from the notion of ‘basho’, developed by Japanese philosopher Kitarō Nishida. Kitarō's ‘basho’ (場所) refers to a fundamental ‘place’ or ‘field’ where things exist and interact. Not just a physical location, but a more abstract space where all experiences, thoughts, and phenomena are interconnected. In Kitarō's philosophy, ‘basho’ is a dynamic, living ground where subject and object, self and world, are not separate but mutually interrelated.

Dillon is currently developing two new commissions - for celebrated piano and percussion group, GBSR Duo, and for contemporary-classical sextet, Explore Ensemble. Both premiering, Spring 2026. She lives and works in London.


CONTACT

Annex Agency chloe@annexagency.co.uk

Photograph by Emile Holba