Category: Fiona Davies
New thinking in hospital design influencing patient outcomes
In Redesigned Room, Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN The new rooms at the University Medical Center of Princeton also include a bedside-to-bathroom handrail and a foldout sofa for visitors. Credit Laura Pedrick for The New York Times
As per Instructions: 1,2,3 and 4, 2013 and 2014 canvas, paint and nails
ABC Australia – Why are there different blood types ?
31 July, 2014 2:00PM AEST A bloody mystery: why do humans have blood types? By Matthew Bevan Despite a century of study into blood types, scientists still don’t know what purpose they serve. What’s your blood type? Are you the universal donor O-? Or maybe you’re the universal recipient AB+. Surprisingly, despite a century of [...]
A Socially Engaged Practice?
Heard a great radio interview yesterday by Frances Barrett talking to two artists Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, and Zanny Begg, together with the exhibition curator Megan Monte, about an upcoming show at Campbelltown Arts Centre in South Western Sydney. The exhibition is called "The List' and the short version of the curatorial premise is seeking to [...]
Blood on Silk: Turn to, turn away
Closing on the 20th July, it's the last week you can see this work, Blood on Silk, Turn to, turn away installed across the foyer of the Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Another photo from Blood on Silk at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
The single work Blood on Silk: Campbelltown uses layers of handmade silk paper both to define the structure of the gallery space and to partially conceal it. Working as a semi permeable membrane some things are allowed to pass and others held. The silk paper is beautiful, isolating and with its references to connective tissues [...]
Blood on Silk: Site of Production
Blood on Silk: Site of production, 2014 Video 2.20 mins. As installed at Campbelltown Arts Centre projected onto a black wall A repetitive unveiling of the crook, more formally known as the cubital crease, of the human arm reveals the site of blood retrieval as well as the vulnerability and grittiness of misuse in that area of the body. [...]
Blood on Silk: Campbelltown June 7th to 20th July 2014
Video interview on Blood on SIlk: State Silk Museum from Cultureonline
. Fiona Davies - "Blood on Silk"
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