Category: blood on silk

Non invasive testing of blood glucose levels.

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Video Still, BloodonSilk: Blood Types O +, 2012, 2 mins

Frédérique Sunstrum, was recently a gold award winner in the Next Gen category for the Good Design Australia Awards. Her design replaces the needs for Diabetes patients to remove a sample of blood from their body and test it externally for glucose levels with a non invasive determination of those levels using radio waves. Most importantly the device worn on the ear monitors changes in the levels and sends a phone alert to the patient if action is needed. Congratulations Frédérique.

https://good-design.org/projects/continuity-non-invasive-glucose-responsive-insulin/

Detail from the new work – ‘Coughing Up Blood’.

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Fiona Davies Coughing up Blood ( Detail) 2019 silk paper, aluminium, found objects and light, 300 x 600 x 600(h)cm. Photo Credit: Pamela Kleemann

My mother’s slightly yellowed tupperware container has become the makeshift Xray reader in this desolate, isolated space within the gallery at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.

Fiona Davies – Coughing up Blood, 2019

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Fiona Davies – Coughing up Blood, 2019

This link will take you to my work on the Resilience in times of adversity website. Curated by Vivienne Dadour the exhibition is at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre and runs until the 29th September.

From Day One of the Install at The State Silk Museum in Tbilisi – Choose the First Site.

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This is the first of three sites at the State Silk Museum in Tbilisi choosen for the site specific work Woven Architecture . Thinking more and more about the power structures of architecture and the ways this is carried over to the contemporary architectural response and of course how that is translated into hospital and ICU design.

Images of the Exhibition – Cast a cold eye on life, on death: The Remake: Medicalised Death in ICU online.

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online at http://www.fionadavies.com.au

videos of the performative lecture will be online by the end of this week

Works in progress still messing around before becoming playing tokens.

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Just standing on your head waiting for the glue to dry that is sticking a  button to your feet.  Small figurines becoming playing tokens for a modified version of snakes and ladders that leads the players through a game outlining the stages of heart failure.

The game lies inside the wonder cabinet zinc box of Blood on Silk: Total Artificial heart (TAH). This work, the last in the series of five wonder cabinet  works, provides another point of focus on the most elemental force behind the movement of blood and blood products: the beating of the heart. The heart is also one of the transplantable body parts and this junction between blood and body parts, the heart forms a focal point in this work.