Blood on Silk: Surgery by Fiona Davies , is a multi panel woven work that will be installed in the foyer of the Science Building at Macquarie University in the near future. This work references the predominance of code as the preferred way of seeing or understanding complex situations and concepts. The diagonal red and [...]
Category: art science
Dr Peter Domachuk – Obituary
At the end of last year Dr Peter Domachuk died after a short illness. He was 33 years old. Details of his scientific works can be found in the obituary written on The Optical Society website. http://www.osa.org/es-es/about_osa/newsroom/obituaries/peter_domachuk/ From 2010 Dr Peter Domachuk, together with Dr Lee Anne Hall, a writer, and Fiona Davies, a visual artist, was in [...]
An interview I gave about the work Blood on Silk: Farnham at the end of Oct 2012
New work Blood on Silk; Field of Flowers, not going quite to plan but going off plan in an interesting way
Video from ABC News Service in Australia about the opening up of new silk trading routes across Asia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-28/the-new-silk-road/4395778
Short video walking through the installation Blood on Silk: Farnham by Fiona Davies
Speech by Professor Simon Olding, University for the Creative Arts at the opening of Blood on Silk: Farnham.
Earlier today, to meet a pressing deadline, I finished writing a review of Tanya Harrod’s quite remarkable biography of the potter Michael Cardew. Cardew, like his friend and sometimes combatant Bernard Leach, was eloquently dismissive of the ArtSchool. He wrote to his wife Mariel that his teaching at the Royal College of Art kept him [...]
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