About:
Fiona Davies’ art practice incorporates object, video, photography, projection, installation, performance, and curation, and is based in a trans disciplinary investigation into systems, materials, and processes. Fiona is primarily focused on the patient/hospital interaction and specifically medicalised death in ICU.
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I acknowledge the Dharug and Gundungurra people on whose land I live and work. I pay my respects to their elders past, present and future.
After getting so much value out of really looking at the work Blood on Silk: Magenta No Exit exhibited in the Woman (seen) exhibition at Western Sydney University I decided to post an image and text from selected works from the Blood on Silk Series twice a week. This project started in 2010 so there are many threads of development.
Blood on Silk started as a cross disciplinary collaboration between the late Dr Peter Domachuk, Dr Lee Anne Hall and Fiona Davies. We started looking at all sorts of scientific, ethical, social, cultural, economic and just interesting threads between silk and Blood. Peter died in late 2012 leading to thoughts about how can a collaboration continue when one member has died. The Art Theorist Dr Anne Finnegan has written a very fine essay on this subject that I’ll be posting at that point in the time line.
Some of these posts are on the Blood on Silk page on this website as listed in the above header. All are on social media -Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin. Buttons for those social media links are also in the header above.
Collaboration is such an interesting process and its so difficult to generalise about the how, when and why.
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Blood on Silk: One, 2012 Accelerator Gallery Culture at Work, Pyrmont, Silk and rice paper, and found objects
Blood on Silk: Blood Types, Bleeding Out, 2010 to 2017. video ink wallpaper paste, size and format variable
Blood on Silk: Kandos, 2011, Silk and rice paper, found objects and ink, size variable - as shown at Kandos Projects, Kandos, NSW Australia in 2011.
Blood on Silk : Trade 2011,2012 and 2013 An exhibition of twenty seven and then thirty videos were shown in the window gallery space at Lyttleton Stores in Lawson NSW Australia from March 3rd 2023 to April 3rd 2023.
Blood on Silk: Farnham, 2012, James Hockey Gallery at the University of Creative Arts UCA, Farnham, UK, silk paper, found objects and video.
Blood on Silk: Death 3, 2012, in the exhibition 'Death 3 I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore', at Parramatta Artists Studios, Parramatta, Sydney Australia silk paper size variable
Blood on Silk: Collaboration Starting with Twenty- Three Units of Blood 2013, tablet, digital content, metal, silk, rice paper, ink and pen. 32 x 31 cm (closed)
Blood on Silk: As Per Instructions I, 2013, canvas, paint and nails, 200 x 300 (h) x 70(d) cm
Blood on Silk: Turn to, turn away, 2013, found materials, wire and paint 240 x 300 x 360cm
Blood on Silk Trade, 2011.2012 and 2013. video 20"‘ in the group show Perşembe Pazari Final Cut, the last exhibition of the Caravansarai artist residency on Banka Sokaği, Beyyoğlu, Istanbul.
Blood on Silk: Field of Flowers, 2014, canvas , paint, fabric and found materials, size variable, As shown at Campbelltown Centre of the Arts.
Blood on Silk: Site of Production, 2014 video 1’11” was also shown at the 'Blood on Silk' survey show at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Blood on Silk: As Per Instructions II, III and IV, 2014, canvas, paint, size variable
Blood on Silk conflated with Blood on Silk Trade, 2014 in the survey show at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Blood on Silk: This is not a public exhibition at Tufts Analytical Lab 2014, silk paper and found objects, size variable. As installed for two and a half days in the analytical lab in the Biomedical Silk Lab at Tufts University Boston USA in late October 2014
Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker, 2015 found objects, sound video and print 420 x 220 x 80cm. Installed at the Drabee Road Nursery, Kandos, NSW. Australia as part of Cementa_15. April 2015
Blood on Silk: White Blood Bags Dancing in in the Dappled Sun while being X-rayed, 2015, video 3'31"
Blood on Silk: Magenta, 2015, 285 x 285 x 29(d)cm satin ribbon, canvas, paint and wood
Blood on Silk: Bleeding Out, 2016 metal, glass, paint, ink, projection and found objects, 135 x 78 x 96(h)cm.
Blood on Silk: Bleeding Out Internally (The Book), 2016 rice and other papers, ink thread and found objects, 32 x 20 x 5(d) cm