Looking at the next work from 2013

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 [...]

Still in 2013 this is the next in the series of works from the Blood on Silk Project

'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 [...]

Blood on Silk: Death 3 from 2012

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 Second Wave of Blood on Silk Works – ‘Blood on Silk: Blood Types Bleeding Out’

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 [...]

Working my way slowly through the Blood on Silk Works

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 [...]

Group Exhibition at Everglades in Leura Australia, ‘Image Word Object’.

My work is on the right hand side of this photograph. Fiona Davies has made many objects documenting personal and family histories and traumas. Her work ranges over multiple media including mixed media installation, video, still images, texts and games that invite the public to engage in the process of creativity and discovery of personal [...]

From the Italian contemporary textile art magazine, ArteMorbida, an interview by Barbara Pavan about my art practice.

https://www.artemorbida.com/fiona-davies/

Great article on the ABC news website about the changing profile of blood group types in Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-03-21/blood-group-type-australia-donation-ethnicity-diversity-genetics/100916578?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web Follow this link to details of the study and the results and a brief outline of the possible implications of these changes and the relatively unchanging profile of the pool of blood donors in Australia. Fiona Davies Twenty- three Units of Blood,(detail) 2006, metal and found objects size variable

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