Fiona Davies

Fiona’s artistic practice combines object, sound, moving image, installation and performance to expose the emotional landscape of the lived experience of liminal spaces with a particular focus on medicalised events in sites of health care as extreme examples of that type of space. Having recently completed my PhD, my practice is still highly focused on examining the specific process of medicalised death in ICU, one type of event in one type of care within a contemporary hospital.

This work is a response to the chaos and confusion felt during times of emergency, when we don’t know what to do in situations where suddenly we have to respond to distressed, lost and misplaced humans and animals. A number of stories from the fires around Kandos focused on the image of the lost horse trying to survive in the liminal space of reduced visibility and liveability as the fire approaches and smoke and embers obscure the effectiveness of its vision.