Overview
Background
Dr Foley has a national and international profile as a leading contemporary artist and historian. Her work has produced substantial new knowledge around the Queensland Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act (1897), and her numerous exhibitions have shared this knowledge with audiences across the globe. Fiona has exhibited a total of 50 solo exhibitions and 175 group shows; created 14 public art commissions, and her art works are held in 23 collections including The British Museum and the Hood Museum of Art in New Hampshire, USA.
Her work comes with a string of accolades. Her monograph Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act was awarded the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance in 2021, alongside a Highly Commended in the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. In recognition of her very fine achievements, Fiona has been elected an Honorary Fellow in the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Most recently, Fiona was awarded a DECRA for her project, “Investigating the Agency of Aboriginal Frontier War Memorials”.
Availability
- Dr Fiona Foley is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Certificate of Visual Arts, East Sydney Technical College
- Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Research interests
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Investigating the agency of Aboriginal Frontier War memorials
DE230101072 This project aims to unite conflicting versions of Australian history by investigating the impact and effectiveness of Australian Aboriginal Frontier War memorials. It will expand our understanding of the shared sacrifices by First Nation and settler Australians during the frontier war and demonstrated the reconciliatory potential of memorialising art informed by Indigenous oral history and creative arts research and practice. The social and cultural benefits include developing a new understanding of historical construction of Australian national identity and the potential of Indigenous art to transform the function of Australian military monuments as well as a permanent archive of short documentary films and publication.
Works
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2023
Book Chapter
Reason and reckoning: Provocations and conversations about re-imagining Samuel Griffith’s university
Foley, Fiona, Bargallie, Debbie, Carlson, Bronwyn and Nicoll, Fiona (2023). Reason and reckoning: Provocations and conversations about re-imagining Samuel Griffith’s university. The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations. (pp. 263-296) edited by Bronwyn Carlson and Terri Farrelly. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28609-4_15
2022
Book Chapter
Disrupting the silence: Australian Aboriginal art as a political act
Foley, Fiona (2022). Disrupting the silence: Australian Aboriginal art as a political act. Expanding the parameters of feminist artivism. (pp. 51-64) edited by Gillian Hannum and Kyunghee Pyun. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09378-4_3
2022
Journal Article
After Boomalli: Art, activism, and feminism - Fiona Foley in dialogue with Paola Balla
Foley, Fiona and Balla, Paola (2022). After Boomalli: Art, activism, and feminism - Fiona Foley in dialogue with Paola Balla. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 22 (2), 151-159. doi: 10.1080/14434318.2022.2151552
2021
Journal Article
Exploding time past and time present
Foley, Fiona (2021). Exploding time past and time present. Griffith Review, 73, 140-152.
2021
Other Outputs
Bogimbah Creek Mission: The first Aboriginal experiment
Foley, Fiona (2021). Bogimbah Creek Mission: The first Aboriginal experiment. Booral, QLD, Australia: Pirri Productions.
2020
Other Outputs
Why truth telling is the first step towards healing
Foley, Fiona (2020, 11 07). Why truth telling is the first step towards healing The Australian Financial Review 29-29.
2020
Book
Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897
Foley, Fiona (2020). Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897. Brisbane, QLD Australia: University of Queensland Press.
2020
Journal Article
The People of K’Gari/Fraser Island: Working through 250 years of racial double coding
Foley, Fiona (2020). The People of K’Gari/Fraser Island: Working through 250 years of racial double coding. Genealogy, 4 (3) 74, 1-15. doi: 10.3390/genealogy4030074
2019
Journal Article
All men choose the path they walk: art and the scales of justice
Foley, Fiona (2019). All men choose the path they walk: art and the scales of justice. Griffith Review, 65, 97-108. doi: 10.3316/informit.576957026855491
2019
Book Chapter
Creative frictions in the neoliberal university: Courting Blakness at The University of Queensland
Foley, Fiona, Nicoll, Fiona, Volcic, Zala and O'Donnell, Dominic (2019). Creative frictions in the neoliberal university: Courting Blakness at The University of Queensland. Resisting neoliberalism in higher education: seeing through the cracks. (pp. 179-203) edited by Dorothy Bottrell and Catherine Manathunga. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-95942-9_9
2015
Book
Courting blakness: recalibrating knowledge in the sandstone university
Foley, Fiona, Martin-Chew, Louise and Nicoll, Fiona eds. (2015). Courting blakness: recalibrating knowledge in the sandstone university. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: UQP.
2015
Book Chapter
The politics of art and place
Foley, Fiona and Martin-Chew, Louise (2015). The politics of art and place. Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University. (pp. 14-21) edited by Fiona Foley, Louise Martin-Chew and Fiona Nicoll. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
2014
Other Outputs
Courting Blakness exhibition
Foley, Fiona (2014). Courting Blakness exhibition. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia:
2012
Journal Article
I speak to cover the mouth of silence
Foley, Fiona (2012). I speak to cover the mouth of silence. Art Monthly Australia (250), 55-57. doi: 10.3316/informit.669565431397169
2012
Journal Article
The elephant in the room public art in Brisbane
Foley, Fiona (2012). The elephant in the room public art in Brisbane. Artlink, 32 (2), 66-69.
2012
Book Chapter
Just little bits of history re-repeating
Foley, Fiona (2012). Just little bits of history re-repeating. MCA Collection. (pp. 24-29) edited by Glenn Barkley, Judith Blackall, Isabel Hesketh, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor and Ivan Muniz Reed. Sydney, NSW Australia: Museum of Contemporary Art.
2011
Journal Article
When the circus came to town
Foley, Fiona (2011). When the circus came to town. Art Monthly Australia (245), 5-7. doi: 10.3316/informit.548549969265294
2006
Book
The art of politics the politics of art: The place of indigenous contemporary art
Fiona Foley ed. (2006). The art of politics the politics of art: The place of indigenous contemporary art. Southport, Qld., Australia: Keeaira Press.
1999
Book Chapter
A blast from the past
Foley, Fiona (1999). A blast from the past. Performing hybridity. (pp. 46-58) edited by May Joseph and Jennifer Natalya Fink. Minneapolis, MN, United States: University of Minnesota Press.
1997
Book
The Eye of the Storm: Eight Contemporary Indigenous Australian Artists
Foley, Fiona ed. (1997). The Eye of the Storm: Eight Contemporary Indigenous Australian Artists. Canberra, ACT Australia: National Gallery of Australia.
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Fiona Foley is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Investigating the Agency of Aboriginal Frontier War Memorials
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marguerite La Caze
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Master Philosophy
Through a Glass, Darkly: A Novella and Accompany Exegesis
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Helen Marshall, Associate Professor Maggie Nolan
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Master Philosophy
World War I and the Stolen Generation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Martin Crotty
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