Still from 2013, was this work, a commission for the foyer of the Science Building at Macquarie University in Sydney. That building is currently being renovated and the work is in storage. Details - 'Blood on Silk: Surgery' 2013, ribbon, canvas, paint and wood, 525 x 360 x 20cm (d) This work started from my examination [...]
Continuing through the Blood on Silk works - this work from 2012 titled 'Blood on Silk: Death 3' was shown in the exhibition I also curated titled'Death 3 I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore', at Parramatta Artists Studios, Parramatta, Sydney Australia 2012The critic and academic Ann Finegan wrote in the exhibition room sheet thatFiona [...]
The director/ curator of Kandos Projects, Anne Finnegan wrote of this installation that'This proved to be one of our more unpopular but highly successful shows in terms of the strong negative reactions the work produced. The comments of passers by were regularly peppered with expressions like “creeps me out” as people responded on a visceral [...]
This is part of the second wave of works in the Blood on Silk collaboration. Called 'Blood on Silk: Blood Types Bleeding Out' this body of works took the form of videos, projections, static images and an installation. This is a still from a video work where the blood type bleed out into a bed [...]
This is where it began with an exhibition at the Accelerator Gallery of Culture at Work in Pyrmont. Run by the late Sherryl Ryan this was an amazing opportunity to have both a studio and access to an exhibition space. The ability to see your work installed outside of your studio without it being a [...]
https://vimeo.com/fionadavies/time-of-death In Memorial/Time of Death, flowers so often a witness of death, have been filmed over a period of time, slowly deteriorating. Projected onto a dark wall this work becomes emotionally potent as the edges of the images become ambiguous, conveying the concept that ‘the time of death” is fluid and there is often no [...]
The second part of this work hanging about one metre below the bag attached to the body. The current name which reflects on what I feel is the clunkiness of the design of many medical devices is pedestrian and the work needs a new name.
Catch my presentation at the Violence: fourth PARSE biennial research conference at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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