UNSW Galleries hosts the 'The Patient' catalogue, and the book launch of Dr Lindsay Kelly’s new book Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience (I. B. Tauris, 2016), and features the performance 'Ending' from Sheree Rose, Fiona McGregor and Victoria Spence.

Sheree Rose is an American photographer and performance artist. She is best known for her collaborative work with performance artist Bob Flanagan, and her photography documenting a wide range of Los Angeles subcultures, especially in relation to BDSM and body modification.

Fiona McGregor is a Sydney author and performance artist. She writes novels, essays, articles, and reviews. Since 1993, she has published 7 books, most recently the essay collection Buried not Dead. 

Victoria Spence is a Sydney based celebrant, end of life doula, counsellor and holistic funeral director of Life Rites, established in 2010. After 15 years of practice as an artist making theatre and performance works and events, Victoria began as a Civil Celebrant in 2003, to expand the realm of choices and quality of experiences for people when they found themselves face-to-face with death, grief and loss.

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Presented in conjunction with 'The Patient' at UNSW Galleries.

'The Patient' explores the ways in which artists engage with powerful human experiences in the fields of health, biological science and medicine, contributing to discourse on the representation of illness, disease, care, individual agency and what it is to be human. Artists present new experimental works and ongoing projects across a range of media, connecting to us as viewers (and participants) in ways that are variously difficult, fearless, funny and sometimes unlovely.
 

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