Blood on Silk: As per Instructions, 2013 250 x 360cm pain, fabric and nails photo credit Alex Wisser

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To commemorate the inaugural Dr Peter Domachuk Memorial Lecture given by Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto last night

 

Installation shot of Blood on Silk: Surgery

  2013, ribbon, canvas paint and wood. 360(h) x 525(w) x 20cm As installed in the foyer of the Science Building EA6 at Macquarie University, Sydney , Australia  

Musings on being just a price taker ?

  I'm thinking about the way the market operates for a person who produces and sells their own blood or blood products  and the possibility of  similarities to the  manner of operation of  the markets for agricultural products .  In particular the idea of being  a price taker not a price maker. Price takers are [...]

Blood on Silk: Turn to, turn away

Opening last night in Istanbul

Invitation to Exhibition Opening – 10th Sep 2013 6-9 p.m. Caravansarai Istanbul

Tuesday, September 10, 2013. 6:00pm until 9:00pm in UTC+03. Bankalar Caddesi, Banka Sokak 3 Tan Han, Karaköy, Istanbul, Turkey Visual, sound, installation, and documentary works by members of the Caravansarai Collective: Pat Arnao, Anita Bačić, Richard Bartle, Fiona Davies, Suada Demirovic, Joan Edlis, Korhan Erel, Daisy Frossard, Árni Gudmundsson, Sibel Horada, Laleh Torabi, Julie Upmeyer, [...]

Collaboration starting with twenty-three units of blood

Artist book showing in Bound Unbound at Macquarie University Gallery 31st July to 7th September 2013. Text by Ann Finnegan Images by Fiona Davies.Like the travelogue of Twentysix Gasoline Stations (produced in 1963 by Ed Ruscha) this book uses a combination of old and new means of interaction to track a journey. The sobering question [...]

Blood on Silk: Field of Flowers ( Detail)

Another detail from Blood on Silk: Surgery while waiting for installation

Another detail from Blood on Silk; Surgery