Another detail from this work to be installed in the foyer of the Science Building Macquarie University
Category: installation
Blood on Silk: Surgery (detail)
Fragment of larger work consisting of sixteen woven panels. Detail shows side view of two panels shown at Culture at Work May 8 to 16th 2013
Blood on Silk: Field of Flowers ( Detail )
This is a detail of the work which consists of thirty of these plinths. On each will sit three or more hand sewing baskets re-lined with beaded floral fabrics, embroidered flowers, oya or gold paper flowers over the original red, pink or orange linings of the baskets. This work references cultural material brought to the [...]
Blood on Silk; Surgery 2013 detail
Blood on Silk: Surgery by Fiona Davies , is a multi panel woven work that will be installed in the foyer of the Science Building at Macquarie University in the near future. This work references the predominance of code as the preferred way of seeing or understanding complex situations and concepts. The diagonal red and [...]
An interview I gave about the work Blood on Silk: Farnham at the end of Oct 2012
New work Blood on Silk; Field of Flowers, not going quite to plan but going off plan in an interesting way
Video from ABC News Service in Australia about the opening up of new silk trading routes across Asia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-28/the-new-silk-road/4395778
Short video walking through the installation Blood on Silk: Farnham by Fiona Davies
Speech by Professor Simon Olding, University for the Creative Arts at the opening of Blood on Silk: Farnham.
Earlier today, to meet a pressing deadline, I finished writing a review of Tanya Harrod’s quite remarkable biography of the potter Michael Cardew. Cardew, like his friend and sometimes combatant Bernard Leach, was eloquently dismissive of the ArtSchool. He wrote to his wife Mariel that his teaching at the Royal College of Art kept him [...]
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