Home@735 Gallery is pleased to announce that art philanthropist and pioneering medical practitioner Dr Dick Quan will be opening our ‘One Drop of Blood’ exhibition on Thursday the 25th of September. ‘One Drop of Blood’ is a ceramic installation by emerging Queensland artist Dan Elborne. Elborne’s installation is comprised of 21,000 hand made ceramic pieces representing the number of white blood cells in a single drop of blood. The work was conceived and produced as a result of a close family experience with breast cancer. Dan is a registered fundraiser with the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) and will be asking people to make a donation in exchange for a piece of the artwork. As parts of the artwork are sold off, the installation will decrease in size, echoing the lowering of the white blood cells and a patient’s remission. We invite you all to visit Home@735 Gallery from the 25th to the 28th of September, make a donation to the NBCF and own your piece of this wonderful artwork.
Dr Quan has been a director at Holdsworth House since its inception in 1992 with a clinical focus in sexual health, HIV, Hepatitis and virology. Dr Quan has served on many HIV and sexual health committees including the Anabolic Steroid Reference Committee at the NSW Health Department. He created Holdsworth House as a facility that embraces integrated health using a care team approach and supports ongoing education by speaking at conferences and tutoring at UNSW. Dr Quan is trained in the use of poly-lactic acid (Sculptra) and currently provides a dedicated Sculptra treatment clinic for facial lipoatrophy / lipodystrophy for HIV positive patients. Dr Quan has diverse interests and also serves on many art advisory boards.