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 [...]
'Blood on Silk: As Per Instructions I' 2013, canvas, paint and nails, 200 x 300 (h) x 70(d) cm An survey exhibition at Artspace of the work of Ian Milliss, titled 'Notes on the Works' included my work 'Blood on Silk: As per Instructions I' as one of a number of instructional works which had [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Once Upon a Time, Long Ago and Far Away: Part Four – Compliance, Wearing the Uniform of the Patient Chapter One The patient is told to take off their clothes and put on a worn, thin, and soft pale blue hospital gown. Death appears and challenges the patient to an egg and spoon race. Death [...]
videos still from the video work. Once Upon a Time, Long Ago and Far Away: Wearing the Uniform of the Patient
The Cover of the catalogue for the 2023 exhibition at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre called Tracing the Rupture.
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