Lindsay Dawn Dobbin is a Kanien'kehá:ka - Acadian - Irish water protector, musician, artist, storyteller, educator and lifelong learner who gratefully lives and creates in Wabanaki Territory. Born in Kenepekachiachk—a tidal tributary of Wolastoq ("the beautiful river")—their practice follows the highest (and lowest) tides in the world within the traditional unceded lands of the Wəlastəkwiyik, L'nuk and Peskotomuhkati, Bay of Fundy.

Dobbin's relational and place-responsive practice is guided by curiosity rather than form—the way of water. They are committed to paths of creation that honour the ever-changing thresholds between land and water, and embrace an emergent ethics of improvisation rooted in kinship, living processes, deep listening and mutual flourishing. Their transdisciplinary, genre-fluid work in music, sound art, film, performance, sculpture, poetry, pedagogy and curation brings attention to the natural world as witness, teacher and collaborator in learning—drawing attention to our interdependence.

As a human being with intersecting identities as well as personal and ancestral displacement and trauma, Dobbin is invested in (re)connection, (ex)change, renewal and worlding projects that uphold respectful relations and embrace interstitiality. Their practice honours lived experience as a way of coming to (un)know while listening for the shared beingness, life and resilience in meeting waters.

An active collaborator and facilitator, Dobbin has co-created with artists, Elders, children and communities on projects across Turtle Island—particularly those engaging with Indigenous, Queer, Environmental, Disability and Healing justice lineages through practices of community care, engaged pedagogy, land-water protection and creative access. Their work has been presented nationally and internationally, mostly as part of artist-run and community-based initiatives, and they are the recipient of the Arts Nova Scotia Emerging Artist Award (2019) and the Canada Council for the Arts’ Robert Fleming Prize (2022), which is annually awarded to an emerging composer in so-called Canada.

Often found alongside animals and plants as well as within the waters of gender expansion, Dobbin is grateful for the (tr)ancestral and plantcestral sanctuaries and lineages of (more-than-)human beings who hold them within a vast web of expression, witnessed and transmitted through love. Their practice is a commitment to sharing the support and learnings that have been poured into them by the Elders, teachers, ancestors and children in their life.