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 [...]

For the physics behind the Blood on Silk project, read Peter’s abstract from 2010

http://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/aip-acoft-2010conference/silkchips