Image my work in progress Blood on Silk: Bleeding Out 5 February – 20 February 2016. Airspace Projects 10 Junction St, Marrickville NSW 2204, Australia Opening: Friday 5 February 6pm - 8pm 'Her Moving Presence is an exhibition of moving image work by twelve female artists. The exhibition navigates implied, and actual, presence through the [...]
Category: medicalised death
Detail of a new work – Blood on Silk: White blood bags dancing into definition
A while ago I watched the documentary 'Night will Fall' on the liberation of the concentration and death camps in Europe in 1945. Sequence after sequence showed graphic images of degradation, death and horror. Then there was a short interview about the first images from Dachau after liberation. These images were seen and shown in the [...]
Trans-plantation of the heart after circulatory death of the donor: time for a change in law?
Interesting thoughts about the definition of death from James Tibballs and Neera Bhatia in the Medical Journal of Australia https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2015/203/6/transplantation-heart-after-circulatory-death-donor-time-change-law Fiona Davies Blood on Silk / Surgery (detail) Installed foyer of the Science Building Macquarie University, Sydney Australia
Second studio photo – Magenta blood work in progress.
Studio Shot – White blood work in front of red blood work in front of magenta blood weavings
Fresh whole blood for pediatric heart surgery ‘may reduce risk of transfusion-related illnesses’
Interesting article in Medical News Today on the benefits in paediatric procedures of using fresh whole blood from a single donor
Cementa 15 9th to 12th April in Kandos, NSW, Australia
Cementa is a biennial contemporary arts festival taking place in the post-industrial town of Kandos NSW Click here to see what's on Fiona Davies Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker, 2015, found objects sound, video, and print, 420 x 220 x 80cm The manner in which the market works for a person producing and selling [...]
Blood on Silk: Blood Alcohol Content 1 of 6 in this series
Blood on Silk: Blood Alcohol Content, 2014, print 30 x 20cm