Blood on Silk Newsletter January 2024

Currently on exhibition Blood on Silk: Non Exit, in the Western Sydney University exhibition Women (seen) From the WSU website; “Drawn from Western Sydney University’s Art Collection and loans from artists or their estate,  Women (seen) celebrates 20 women artists connected to Western Sydney through work, study, family, or home. Exhibiting artists: 
Marian Abboud, Eddie [...]

Memorial / Time of Death

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 [...]

From my performative lecture series – one of nine short fairy tales

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 [...]

You are invited to a presentation of my performative work,

Video still from the projection that is part of this layered performative lecture work following the patient pathway from going through the hospital doors to getting out again.

From The London Interdisciplinary School, a great video on Ai + Bias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2sQRrf1Cd8

Sorry I forgot to add the video link.

https://vimeo.com/847563875?share=copy

Watch this video from the Blood on Silk project. A short surreal fairy tale about wearing the uniform of the patient.

videos still from the video work. Once Upon a Time, Long Ago and Far Away: Wearing the Uniform of the Patient

Tracing the Rupture – a group exhibition at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

The Cover of the catalogue for the 2023 exhibition at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre called Tracing the Rupture.

Invitation to MASHUP

The first of two nights of experimentation in a club/bar near Central Station in Sydney Australia. Seven + artists from MAPBM will be using image and sound to inhabit a darkened club space where the boundaries between one work and the next will be fluttery. Join us to see my work extending the blood running [...]

Conference Presentation of Performative Work