Details of the new work – Blood on Silk: Blood Farming/The Producers

Still in Trial but looking good – an optic device that creates a 3D hologram from a blood sample to rate a patient’s probability of forming a life threatening blood clot.

From an article 'How a beer at a uni bar sparked an idea that could save millions' by Blake Foden in the Sydney Morning Herald.   Click on beer to get the link to the SMH Site to read the full article

Should you consider the age and gender breakdown of the previously successful applicants when considering if you should submit an application for an arts residency?

Recently I got a rejection letter back  from a Sydney based organisation in response to an application I had submitted for a fantastic looking arts residency. As previously I have had a very high success rate with applications for residencies, I started thinking that maybe I should have undertaken a bit more research on who [...]

Infusions of plasma from young producers shown to be of benefit in a small trial of patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers.

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/11/clinical-trial-finds-blood-plasma-infusions-for-alzheimers-safe.html Published online by Stanford Medicine News Centre, this article reports on a small early stage clinical trial at Stanford University. The trial was conducted to evaluate the safety of giving patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers, infusions of blood plasma from young producers. Unexpectedly in the trial benefits in tests of functional performance by [...]

Blood Business – Point Productions reported by Marie Maurisse, Francois Pilet

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/four-corners/NC1704H029S00 Saw this documentary last night on the ABC 4Corners program in Australia. Its one thing to read about it but another thing to see it.  Just watch it.

‘Artists as provocateurs’ – an interesting review of Governance by Gina Fairley in Arts Hub

http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/features/visual-arts/gina-fairley/artists-as-provocateurs-253537

Video of new work Blood on Silk: Buy/Sell up on vimeo

https://vimeo.com/210003924

Article on the use of powdered blood.

http://time.com/4603757/how-powdered-blood-could-revolutionize-medicine/?platform=hootsuite

2016 TransCultural Exchange Conference Roundtable

Report on one of the roundtables at the 2016 TransCultural  Exchange  on Artists working with Medicine. http://www.transculturalexchange.org/archives/rt/17/page01.html  

Video of Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker

https://youtu.be/CLDTyNKMRDk Click  for the link to a you tube video of  the work Fiona Davies Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker, 2015  found objects, sound video and print  420 x 220 x 80cm Don't forget to turn the sound up Installed at the Drabee Road Nursery, Kandos, NSW. Australia as part of Cementa_15.  April [...]