Invitation to two exhibition openings next week.

On the 17th October from 6-8 p.m. an exhibition Being towards Death curated by University of Sydney, Masters of Art Curating, students, Tian Kang and Yunyan Tang  will open at the SCA Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney. They have curated a new work of mine an installation titled Where they were last seen.   On [...]

Podcast from late last year – art/science discussion

podcast click here From the archives of ARTHouse on Radio BM 89.1 - In this Segment, Justin Morrissey leads this week's panel discussion on 'Art & Science'. Justin is joined by Damian Castaldi, Fiona Davies, Solange Kershaw and Julie Ankers. Two tracks from Out of Abingdon's newest album are also featured. Image - At the Legacy [...]

Blood test research into predicting your chances of having another heart attack.

Article written by Liam Mannix in the Sydney Morning Herald outlines exciting new work exploring changes in our blood and what they can indicate. I know that once someone has had a heart attack the fear of having another can limit how they let themselves experience life.  So great news from this team of Melbourne [...]

Images from Gore installed in the foyer of ‘the Joan’.

Images from two of the three works forming part of the installation Blood on Silk: Gore  in the foyer of the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in Penrith , Sydney Australia. There have four segments of this programme designed to provide opportunities for an accidental interaction between an art/science work and the viewer.  Visitors to [...]

Infusions of plasma from young producers shown to be of benefit in a small trial of patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers.

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/11/clinical-trial-finds-blood-plasma-infusions-for-alzheimers-safe.html Published online by Stanford Medicine News Centre, this article reports on a small early stage clinical trial at Stanford University. The trial was conducted to evaluate the safety of giving patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers, infusions of blood plasma from young producers. Unexpectedly in the trial benefits in tests of functional performance by [...]

‘Once upon a time, long ago and far away, there were twenty three units of blood’

Once upon a time, long ago and far away, there were twenty-three units of blood 2018, ribbon, canvas and paint. Two panels each 96.4 x 176.5 (h) cm  Photo Alex Gooding In this work twenty-three squat square crosses are arranged in a grid of six by four, with one missing. The dimensions of the cross [...]

Continuing the 23 Units of Blood series of works.

A decolourised cross sits within a filing cabinet drawer.  The aluminium gilded cross is layered onto cracked and distorted white paint left to set in the base of the drawer.   This is one of twenty three large individual silver cross work that make up this large installation. Decolourising is a chemical process used to [...]

A larger scale recent work from the whole collection of the twenty three units of blood series. Started 2016 and still in progress.

In the run up to the Colour Run project at Braemar Gallery in Springwood NSW. I'm having a look at all of the series of works over the years looking at twenty three units of blood.  This series is decolourised crosses representing each of the units of blood.  They are gilded (badly) aluminium onto rusted [...]

Another in the twenty three units of blood series. This time from 2016

This work Blood on Silk: Bleeding Out [The Book] comes in two parts. One is a twenty three page book of blood stains meant to be handled and held on the lap of the reader, within the space of the  body. The other element is a card labelled Instructional Manual. One the reverse side is [...]

Revisiting all of the 23 units of blood works

In two weeks an exhibition called Colour Run will open at the Braemar Gallery in Springwood.  The exhibition is curated by Beata Geyer and one of my works  Once upon a time , long ago and far away there were twenty three units of blood has been selected.  In the run up I've been thinking of [...]