A decolourised cross sits within a filing cabinet drawer. The aluminium gilded cross is layered onto cracked and distorted white paint left to set in the base of the drawer. This is one of twenty three large individual silver cross work that make up this large installation. Decolourising is a chemical process used to [...]
In the run up to the Colour Run project at Braemar Gallery in Springwood NSW. I'm having a look at all of the series of works over the years looking at twenty three units of blood. This series is decolourised crosses representing each of the units of blood. They are gilded (badly) aluminium onto rusted [...]
This work Blood on Silk: Bleeding Out [The Book] comes in two parts. One is a twenty three page book of blood stains meant to be handled and held on the lap of the reader, within the space of the body. The other element is a card labelled Instructional Manual. One the reverse side is [...]
In two weeks an exhibition called Colour Run will open at the Braemar Gallery in Springwood. The exhibition is curated by Beata Geyer and one of my works Once upon a time , long ago and far away there were twenty three units of blood has been selected. In the run up I've been thinking of [...]
https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/new-types-blood-cells-discovered Credit: NIH/Wikimedia Commons A magnified dendritic cell. Funded by the Wellcome Trust, researchers from the Broad Institute spanning MIT and Harvard, have discovered four new subtypes of white blood cells using single cell genomics. The image above, from the Wellcome announcement is of a beautiful almost fungal shape, an expression of the body's defence [...]
From someone who has had more than their fair share of failed attempts by staff to get blood out for testing this sounds like a great medical advance to me. On the flip side it does raise issues about how well it could be set up for the farming of humans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpdTeGPruFA Video credit - [...]
https://exploringtheinvisible.com/2017/05/17/blood-flowers-2017-media-my-blood-and-anhydrous-copper-ii-sulphate/ Via Sophie Weeks and written by ( I think) the Liberal Scientist / Simon Sublime
This is a great panel discussion about the treatment off site of a patient bleeding out (amongst other things) and getting them to site, to the hospital. Click on this link - https://www.smacc.net.au/2016/04/theres-a-hole-in-my-bucket-the-exsanguinating-patient/
Image Credit ABC RN Tiger Web http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/better-blood-transfusions/8507588 Click the link above for this ABC Health Report story on making blood transfusions better. Short and fabulous.
My work is included under the blood section after a whole lot of much more shocking materials like urine etc. Click this link to go to the article. http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/bits-and-blogs/visual-arts/visual-arts-writer/artists-who-turn-body-fluids-into-art-253684 photo credit Alex Wisser
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