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Education:

2019 PhD SCA University of Sydney

2005 Master of Fine Art (by Research) Monash University.

1986 Bachelor of Art (Visual Arts) Western University (Nepean).

1976 Bachelor of Applied Science (Textile Technology) University of NSW.

Websites;  www.fionadavies.com.au   and www.bloodonsilk.wordpress.com and www.instagram.com/fionahilarydavies/

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

Blood on Silk: Trade Daily rotation for thirty days of twenty minute videos of the same street scene Online and in real life Lyttletons’s Lawson, Australia 2023

Blood on Silk : Field of Flowers (reconfigured) Kandos Projects, Kandos NSW, Australia August 1 to October 2, 2022

Blood on Silk : Field of Flowers (reconfigured) Works in the Window Govett’s Leap Blackheath September to October 2, 2022

Once upon a time, long ago and far away x 3 Screening at The Golden Age Cinema, Sydney, Australia 2019

Woven Architecture  The State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia 2019

Cast a Cold Eye on Life on Death: The Remake Medicalised Death in ICU. SCA Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2019

Being Towards Death   SCA Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia 2018

Blood on Silk / Last Seen Casula Powerhouse Turbine Hall, Australia 2017

Blood on Silk: Das KloHäuschen Das KloHäuschen, Munich, Germany, 2016

Blood on Silk: This was not a public exhibition   Tufts University, Silk Biomedical Laboratory, Boston, USA 2014

Blood on Silk    Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia, 2014

Blood on Silk: Tbilisi    The State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia 2014

The Op Shop    Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Australia 2013

Blood on Silk: Farnham   University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK  2012

Fragments from Memorial/Double Pump Laplace I, II and II   Culture at Work, Sydney, Australia 2012

Blood on Silk; Kandos   Kandos Projects, Kandos, Australia 2011

Memorial/Double Pump Laplace II   Physics Building, University of Sydney, Australia 2010

Memorial/Time of Death Garden Museum, London, UK 2010

Intangible Collection    Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, Australia 2009

Memorial/Double Pump Laplace III   Lincoln College/ Oxford University, Oxford, UK 2009

When the Sun blinks   Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, NZ 2007

Memorial / When I was younger    Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2007

Memorial/Double Pump Laplace   St Marks, Aberdeen, Australia 2006

In Memoriam Oceania Center USP Suva, Fiji 2005

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Women (seen) Western Sydney University Parramatta, Sydney Australia 2023-2024

Tracing the Rupture, BMCC Katoomba NSW Australia 2023

Mosaic , Golden Age Cinema and Shades Nightclub, Surry Hills Sydney Australia 2023

Carnivale Catastrophe, Cementa 22, Kandos Australia 2022

Lumiere, The Mt Vic Moving Image Festival, Rhomboid Studio, Mt Victoria Australia 2022

Space YZ Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney Australia 2021

International Limestone Coast Video Art Festival Mount Gambier S.A. Australia 2020

Shift + Control + Escape   Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba Australia 2020

One of many / multiple Plas Bodfa, Wales, UK 2020

Resilience in times of Adversity   Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, Australia 2019

Mapping     Braemar Gallery, Springwood, Australia 2019

Sui Generis, The Possibilities of a House   Plas Bodfa, Wales, UK 2019

Hunter Red: Corpus     Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia 2018

Holding Space    MAPBM 3x6 Kiosk Project, Katoomba, Australia 2018

Overlook     Stacks Projects, Sydney, Australia 2017

ephemera     SCA Galleries, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2017

Cudos Legacy  Nano Science Hub, School of Physics, University of Sydney 2017

Explorer’s, Narratives of Site     MAPBM at Woodford Academy, Australia 2017

Blood, Attract and Repel   Science Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia 2017

The Rise of the Bio Society      Riddoch Gallery, Mt Gambier, Australia 2017

Governance, The Exhibition    Old Government House, Sydney, Australia 2017

Colour Run 1st WAS Biennale    Map Project Space, Woodford, Australia 2016

Experiment       Stockholm University, Sweden, 2016

The Open Field   Peacock Gallery, Auburn, Australia 2016

Prescriptions    Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury, UK 2016

Her Moving Presence    Airspace, Marrickville, Australia 2016

Cementa_15      Drabee Nursery, Kandos, Australia 2015

Unfolded Magenta     West project space, Hazelbrook, Australia 2015

Eco Spirit Map Art Projects Morton House, Woodford, Australia 2014

Notes on the Work Ian Milliss  Artspace, Sydney, Australia, 2013

Final Cut Caravansarai Istanbul - Parallel Event Istanbul Biennale, Turkey 2013

Bad Girls   Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT, Australia 2013

Cementa 13   Kandos Museum, Kandos, Australia 2013

Death 3, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore   Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney, Australia 2012

Pazari Projects Caravansarai, Istanbul, Turkey 2012

Looking at Others/Stage One of the Death Project, Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney, Australia 2008

Breaking Ice: Re-Visioning Antarctica    Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ 2005

Anita and Beyond   Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2002

Selected Performances:

Once Upon a Time, Long Ago and Far Away: Wearing the Uniform of the Patient - Derby University U.K, Flinders and Adelaide University, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre and Rhomboid Studio 2023

Procession, Carnivale Catastrophe presented by MAPBM as part of Cementa22, Kandos NSW 2022

Once Upon a Time, Long Ago and Far Away: A Short History of Removal Lumiere Festival of the Moving Image, Mt Victoria, Australia 2022

Before Bed, a group performance by the Before Bed Collective for the UnFix Festival Glasgow, UK 2021

Cast a Cold Eye: Performative lectures accompanying the solo exhibition SCA Gallery, Sydney Australia 2019

Once Upon a Time, Long Ago and Far Away:  Performative lectures accompanying solo exhibition by Danica Knezevic 2018

Residencies :

Das KloHäuschen / Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany 2016

Tufts University Silk Engineering Lab, Boston, USA 2014

Kandos Projects, Kandos, Australia 2013

Culture at Work - Collaboration Blood on Silk with the late Dr Peter Domachuk/USYD 2010 - 2014

Caravansarai, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011, 2012, and 2013

University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji 2005

Awards and Grants:   

Australian Postgraduate Award - University of Sydney

Munich cultural department, Villa Waldberta, Bavaria State, Germany

MAGNA awards   Winner of category 'Exhibition - temporary or travelling' L 1 for The Op Shop at MRAG

Australia Council for the Arts grants - new work category

NAVA project and marketing grants

Parramatta City Council project grants.

Selected Bibliography and Conference Papers:

PARSE JOURNAL, Issue 15, Violence: Embodiment, 2022.’Violence: Embodiment’ Published by Parse – Göteborgs Universitet https://parsejournal.com/issue_post/violence-embodiment/

ADSR Zine Issue 016 2022 essay Is that Cocteau’s Horse? www.adsrzine.com 

Review of ‘Carnivale Catastrophe’ presented by MAPBM as part of Cementa 22 https://memoreview.net/reviews/cementa22-at-not-listed-by-anastasia-murney

Essay on Lumiere Festival by Chloe Wolifson at https://www.lumierefestival.com.au/essay

Video Art during and After the Pandemic by Eve Sullivan - Artlink https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4885/video-art-during-and-after-the-pandemic-2020-limes/

PhD thesis “Cast a cold eye on life, on death: The Remake: Medicalised Death in ICU” https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/21232

Resilience Exhibition Catalogue https://resilienceintimesofadversity.com/fiona-davies-coughing-up-blood-2019/

AAH Conference Courtauld Institute + Kings College London, 2018 conference paper - Aural Affects and Effects

Transcultural Exchange Quebec 2018 conference paper – Chan, Knezevic, Isaacs and Davies  

Writing Teachers Newcastle – Hunter Red: Corpus 2018 https://multimodalme.blog/2018/07/07/writing-teachers-newcastle-hunter-red-corpus/

Holding Space by Kath Fries 2018 https://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/visual-arts/kath-fries/holding-space-255089

Explorer’s Catalogue 2017 https://explorersnarrativesofsite.org/explorers-latest/

Blood Attract and Repel, Science Gallery Melbourne exhibition catalogue 2017

AAH Summer Symposium University of Glasgow 2017 conference paper - A Medical Monitor’s Song version two

Artists who turn body fluids into Art 2017   http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/bits-and-blogs/visual-arts/visual-arts-writer/artists-who-turn-body-fluids-into-art-253684

Artists as Provocateurs by Gina Fairley 2017http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/features/visual-arts/gina-fairley/artists-as-provocateurs-253537  

Steve Dow Art Guide Australia  https://artguide.com.au/blood-on-silk-turns-the-spotlight-on-dying

Governance, exhibition catalogue 2017

Blood Ties by Yvette Hamilton  https://issuu.com/visualbind0/docs/1of_2016_visual_bind_

The Work of Art, AAANZ conference paper ANU, Australia 2016

Control, SLSA EU conference paper, Stockholm University, Sweden 2016

Death, Art and Anatomy conference paper Winchester University, UK 2016

Open Field catalogue, Peacock Gallery Auburn, Sydney Australia 2016

Her Moving Presence catalogue Airspace Gallery, Sydney Australia 2016

Prescriptions catalogue, Beaney House of Knowledge Coventry UK 2016

Transcultural Exchange roundtable  Boston University  USA ‘artists working with medicine’ http://www.transculturalexchange.org/archives/rt/17/page01.html  2016

Art and a post-industrial town, Malcolm Whittaker RealTime Arts Issue 127

Interview State Silk Museum May 2014 Guram Kapanadze 2014 http://youtu.be/TKxtI3FU2xU

Morton House + Eco Spirit Catalogue Jacquelene Drinkall MAP 2014 

Pecha Kucha http://youtu.be/rbYknHnz-r0   2013

The Op Shop catalogue Maitland Regional Art gallery 2013

New kid on the conglomerate art block by Sophia Kouyoumdjan, Realtime 114 April 2013

Transitions and Influence catalogue University of the Creative Arts Farnham UK October 2012

 ‘Slow Wide and Dangerous’ Art Monthly March 2011

IOHA Conference Prague  joint paper with Joe Eisenberg, and Janis Wilton 2010

Fiona Davies; Intangible Collection Joanna Mendelssohn, Artlink Dec 2009

British Library/Arts Catalyst/Open University Polar Archive, London UK 2007.

One Only Grant Banbury, The Physics Room Annual 2002

Collections:

Casula Powerhouse Sydney, Australia

Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, Australia

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, Australia

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Riddoch Gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia

The State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Western University, Sydney, Australia

Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia

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