Install shot of Bleeding out internally (the book)

The Drawing Room, The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Coventry UK until 14th August 2016

Glasgow designer Fraser Ross has created a collection of seven conceptual human organs that would perform extra functions like squirting ink and spinning silk

From the De Zeen online magazine

Second studio photo – Magenta blood work in progress.

Yet another fantastic new biomedical use for silk announced by Tufts University

'Multi-Functional Printable Silk Inks Tap Common Print Technology to Address Therapeutics, Regenerative Medicine, Bio-Sensing Needs - In the photo - ' When printed on surgical gloves in functional silk inks doped with bacteria-sensing agents, the word "contaminated" changed from blue to red after exposure to E. coli.'

Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker

Fiona Davies Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker, 2015  found objects, sound video and print  420 x 220 x 80cm Installed at the Drabee Road Nursery, Kandos, NSW. Australia as part of Cementa_15.  April 2015 The manner in which the market works  for a person  producing  and selling their own blood, blood products  or [...]

Blood on Silk: Magenta, 2015, 285 x 285 cm, ribbon, paint and canvas

Looking one way then the other     In this work the codified pattern of eight drops of blood falling from one metre onto a hard surface is further coded into a weaving pattern, using  satin ribbons and solid canvas.  Through variations of the dyed colour magenta and  the reflective properties of the satin weave [...]

Blood on Silk: Blood Alcohol Content 1 of 6 in this series

Blood on Silk: Blood Alcohol Content, 2014, print 30 x 20cm

Delivering Impact – Blood lines spelled out

Monash University Magazine, Delivering Impact - Blood lines spelled out. This was an idea I saw proposed a year or so ago. Great to see it is in practice. Anything that reduces the possibility or unintentional error has to be a good thing.