Painting the Throat, 2017, zinc,found objects, rice and other papers, iodine and ink,dimensions variable.
From her essay in the Explorers catalogue Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Jacqueline Millner from Latrobe University, Victoria Australia proposes that ,
‘Fiona Davies reimagines and revitalises lost histories too, in this case bringing her sensitivity around the medicalization of vulnerable people to the boy boarders once resident here. Davies has rendered the basins in the boys’ washroom into pathology slides: as we peer down, we catch a glimpse of disease and possible institutional responses to it, gaining a visceral sense of how these young bodies were once patrolled and controlled.’
