Blood on Silk A Robotic Surgical Tool Relaxes by Baking Bread, 2024, Paint and found object (an industrial aluminum bread baking tray) 70 x 40 x 4 (d) cm In this work I speculate about the possibility that a robotic means of facilitating surgery may require the supports often deemed desirable by humans, The [...]
Still in 2013 is this work 'Blood on Silk: Turn to, turn away' found materials, wire and paint 240 x 300 x 360cm Installed on Banka Sokaği, Beyyoğlu, Istanbul and slung high between two buildings, the fifteen panels in Blood on Silk: Turn to, turn away spin displaying an enchanting readiness to trade, yet also [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
videos still from the video work. Once Upon a Time, Long Ago and Far Away: Wearing the Uniform of the Patient
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 [...]
rice and other papers, gold leaf, wood, paint, silk paper and cloth, 2014 and 2023 1800 x 30 x 30cm in rolled format 1800 x 10200 x 30 'The project 'Blood on Silk ' was started in 2010 with the collaboration between Fiona Davies and the physicist the Late Dr Peter Domachuk. Peter was researching [...]
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