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 [...]
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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 [...]
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
You are invited to Blood on Silk | Fiona Davies | Saturday 7 June, 2pm at Campbelltown Arts Centre
Blood on Silk is a dynamic and thought provoking exhibition by Australian artist Fiona Davies. Drawing on research conducted by scientists who planned to create silk microchips used to measure blood cells still within the body, Davies responds with her own personal quest to understand the material, cultural, and personal processes related to surveillance, science, [...]
Exhibition Invite May 7th 6-8 pm State Silk Museum,Tbilisi, Georgia.
Real Blood?
I often get asked if I use 'real' blood in my work. The project I have been working on for three-plus years is titled Blood on Silk, which looks at the biomedical uses of silk, and particularly its ability to assist in reading the properties of blood while that blood is still within the body. So it's easy to see what drives [...]
Images from Whitebox in Griffith University
Blood on Silk : As per Instructions 1,2,3 and 4 Queensland College of Art, Griffith University - Gold Coast campus Queensland, 4222, AUSTRALIA Installed at Artspace Sydney in late 2013, the work Blood on Silk: As per instructions I was exhibited in the exhibition, Notes on the Work a survey exhibition by Ian [...]
Blood on Silk: Tbilisi opening 7th May 6 p.m.
The new work Blood on Silk: Tbilisi will be exhibited at the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi Georgia from May 7th until 27th May 2014 აბრეშუმის სახელმწიფო მუზეუმი State Silk Museum, 6, Tsabadze st., 0112 Tbilisi, Georgia Hours - 11 a.m. -17 p.m closed Monday You are invited to the private viewing or opening on May 7th 6 p.m. [...]
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