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View essay by Grant Bambury In The Physics Room Annual 2002
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View essay by Grant Bambury In The Physics Room Annual 2002
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One Only
Fiona Davies
30 January - February 22

Sydney artist Fiona Davies works site specifically, often in historic homesteads in Australia, creating works which utilize the morass of household debris of former residents, transforming the domestic and the everyday objects into installations which simultaneously pay homage to, and critique, the lives of the previous occupants.

Davies ’s work for the Physics Room has been developed in conjunction with the Canterbury Museum, utilizing artifacts from the Museum’s collection, creating work which sits in an ambiguous position within art and museum practice, and questioning the location of meaning in traditional ethnographic practice which privileges object over context.

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Pennant - flown from a Sno-cat during the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition 1955-58, donated by Wg Cdr J.R. Claydon

Kaifaka (cloak)Cat no. E 149 666  from the collection of Mrs Davies ' father the Rev Gideon Smales presented in the memory of the late C.C. Davies

Saucer, tea cup and coffee cup decorated in the Royal Lily pattern. Saucer by Worcester c1788-90, the coffee cup is a copy by Caughley c 1790 and the tea cup is unidentified possibly European. Donated by Sir Christopher
Sydney Cockerell

Photograph from the Sheehan Collection -  Parks and Garden folio Unidentifeid/Sundry Pic 88/83 in an envelope from Fisher's Ghost Plumbing Minto NSW Australia.

Photograph - The Endurance at Night by Frank Hurley - plus interpretation panel


Reviews, Essays & Articles

A view on the archives
The Press, 2002 Feb. 20, p. 36
Pauli, Dorothee.
One Only by Fiona Davies. Includes archival materials relating to Shackleton's expeditions.

ONE ONLY : Fiona Davies
Essay by Grant Bambury
In The Physics Room Annual 2002
ISBN# 0-9582359-1-0