Still in 2013 is this work 'Blood on Silk: Turn to, turn away' found materials, wire and paint 240 x 300 x 360cm Installed on Banka Sokaği, Beyyoğlu, Istanbul and slung high between two buildings, the fifteen panels in Blood on Silk: Turn to, turn away spin displaying an enchanting readiness to trade, yet also [...]
'Blood on Silk: As Per Instructions I' 2013, canvas, paint and nails, 200 x 300 (h) x 70(d) cm An survey exhibition at Artspace of the work of Ian Milliss, titled 'Notes on the Works' included my work 'Blood on Silk: As per Instructions I' as one of a number of instructional works which had [...]
Continuing through the Blood on Silk works - this work from 2012 titled 'Blood on Silk: Death 3' was shown in the exhibition I also curated titled'Death 3 I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore', at Parramatta Artists Studios, Parramatta, Sydney Australia 2012The critic and academic Ann Finegan wrote in the exhibition room sheet thatFiona [...]
The work 'Blood on Silk: Farnham' was installed in the James Hockey Gallery at the University of Creative Arts UCA, Farnham , UK in October 2012. Monumental sheets of handmade silk paper were hung in a maze like/hospital bed/ICU bed bay configuration from the ceiling of the two story gallery. The perspective from the walkway [...]
The director/ curator of Kandos Projects, Anne Finnegan wrote of this installation that'This proved to be one of our more unpopular but highly successful shows in terms of the strong negative reactions the work produced. The comments of passers by were regularly peppered with expressions like “creeps me out” as people responded on a visceral [...]
This is part of the second wave of works in the Blood on Silk collaboration. Called 'Blood on Silk: Blood Types Bleeding Out' this body of works took the form of videos, projections, static images and an installation. This is a still from a video work where the blood type bleed out into a bed [...]
This is where it began with an exhibition at the Accelerator Gallery of Culture at Work in Pyrmont. Run by the late Sherryl Ryan this was an amazing opportunity to have both a studio and access to an exhibition space. The ability to see your work installed outside of your studio without it being a [...]
Currently on exhibition Blood on Silk: Non Exit, in the Western Sydney University exhibition Women (seen) From the WSU website; “Drawn from Western Sydney University’s Art Collection and loans from artists or their estate, Women (seen) celebrates 20 women artists connected to Western Sydney through work, study, family, or home. Exhibiting artists: Marian Abboud, Eddie [...]
Once Upon a Time, Long Ago and Far Away: Part Four – Compliance, Wearing the Uniform of the Patient Chapter One The patient is told to take off their clothes and put on a worn, thin, and soft pale blue hospital gown. Death appears and challenges the patient to an egg and spoon race. Death [...]
Video still from the projection that is part of this layered performative lecture work following the patient pathway from going through the hospital doors to getting out again.
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