Starting the Install – Tbilisi, Georgia

Day one of the installation of my exhibition at the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

Blood on Silk: Turn to, turn away in Modern Art Projects at Morton House Woodford last weekend

Further information, images of other work in the exhibition, and the excellent catalogue essay, can be found online at modernartprojects.org As they say 'Modern Art Projects (MAP) is a social and cultural engagement program designed to explore the nexus of art and architecture via a broad inter disciplinary field.'  

Invitation to the opening of Blood on Silk: As per Instructions 1, 2, 3 and 4

Opening Wednesday 2nd  April  6 - 8 p.m. Exhibition 1st April to 18th April 2014 White box Gallery Building G14, Level One Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Gold Coast  QLD

Pecha Kucha Dec 6th 2013 at Scenic World organised by Lizzy Marshall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbYknHnz-r0

Blood on Silk: As per Instructions, 2013 250 x 360cm pain, fabric and nails photo credit Alex Wisser

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To commemorate the inaugural Dr Peter Domachuk Memorial Lecture given by Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto last night

 

Installation shot of Blood on Silk: Surgery

  2013, ribbon, canvas paint and wood. 360(h) x 525(w) x 20cm As installed in the foyer of the Science Building EA6 at Macquarie University, Sydney , Australia  

Musings on being just a price taker ?

  I'm thinking about the way the market operates for a person who produces and sells their own blood or blood products  and the possibility of  similarities to the  manner of operation of  the markets for agricultural products .  In particular the idea of being  a price taker not a price maker. Price takers are [...]

Article called ‘A pound of flesh’ by Julie Bindel in the SMH today – well worth reading

http://www.smh.com.au/national/-2pt2c.html A kidney? $135,000. A heart? Up to $1.6 million. With the number of organs now  critically limited, wealthy patients are spending a fortune on illicit  transplants. But it is the desperate 'donors' who are paying the ultimate price