Interviewed by the great Leah Haynes on radio EastideFm earlyish in the morning of the 23rd March . My interview overlapped with the very fine visual artist Nicole Barakat. Over the years we have worked together and are both in Cementa15 at Kandos, April 9th to 12th. So a great chance to catch up with what she's up to [...]
Category: Fiona Davies
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
Another way light provides the answer for blood testing
Light replaces the Needle. 'Empa and the University Hospital Zurich have joined forces to develop a sensor that gages the blood sugar through skin contact. And best of all: No blood samples are necessary, not even to calibrate the sensor. “Glucolight” is initially to be used in premature babies to avoid hypoglycemia and subsequent brain [...]
Blood at the Science Gallery Dublin 2014
Blood on Silk: Wrap up of exhibitions in 2014
Can we move past an ethnographic approach to Arts/Science ?
One of the common artistic strategies that appears to dominate the current batch of arts /science exhibitions is the practice of the artist finding or making an artefact of science; either in the laboratory, from a real or online scientific archive, or in the collection of a science museum, and then re-locating it to an [...]
Blood on Silk: Tufts Analytical Lab, 2014, silk paper and found objects, size variable. As installed for two and a half days in the analytical lab in the Biomedical Silk Lab at Tufts University Boston USA in late October 2014
This was not a public exhibition - it could only be seen by those who worked in this particular set of scientific laboratories within the silk laboratory at Tufts University Boston where they '.. study the use of silk as an optical material for applications in biomedical engineering, photonics and nanophotonics' This installation intervened into [...]
Blood on Silk: Surgery – artist interview
http://youtu.be/iYKoBuZoJ7w Blood on Silk: Surgery as installed in the foyer of the main science building Macquarie University, Sydney Australia
Video of the installation Blood on Silk: Trade conflated with Blood on Silk: Campbelltown as installed at Campbelltown Arts Centre 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvCc7DLSY2oStill Photo Credits Alex Gooding, Martin Lukersmith, Zan Wimberley, Alex WisserVideo Credits Fiona Davies, Alex Gooding
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