Fiona Foley

Fiona Foley

Fiona Foley (born 1964) is an indigenous Australian woman artist from Badtjala, Fraser Island, Queensland.

She studied at the Sydney College of the Arts. She has traveled as an artist internationally and to remote communities in Northern Territory. In particular visits to Raminingining inspired an awakening to culture and a conscious commitment to living on her own land in Badtjala. She helped establish the Boomali Aboriginal Arts Cooperative in Sydney along with a group of prominent and politically active Aboriginal artists.

Foley uses her art to explore the tensions between sex, race and history and their various constructions. Through this process an act of dispossession and domination becomes one of perseverance and survival.

Foley's work refers to her unique life history as an indigenous woman growing up in regional Queensland, in a community with a living memory of their colonisation by the English. Foley's discourse of history and culture is profoundly personal as it has impacted on her family, community and remains central to her entire sense of identity.

Her art is a political statement which mocks dominant notions of Aboriginal women's sexuality, which is popularly figured as either non-existent or at the disposal of white masculinity.

Her art is contemporary in its form and concerns but continually make refers to traditional art. The use of ochres and wood carvings express her identity. However, through a contemporary re-reading of these works she makes strong political statements about the history of Australia and the continued disempowerment of indigenous people. These dynamics are evident in each of her works as she negotiates the dichotomies of black and white, urban and rural, local and global, traditional and contemporary.

For Foley however, the political and the personal are not separate entities. Her lifestyle and art both reflect a commitment to her Aboriginal identity and challenge Australian culture to reread history to reveal moments of strength and empowerment.

Her work is held in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery. [ [http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art/fiona_foley Queensland Art Gallery website.] ]

Bibliography

*Foley, Fiona (1999). "A Blast From the Past." "Performing Hybridity". May Joseph, et al, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
*Martin-Chew, Louise (2006). "Poignancy in Somber Truths." "The Australian". October 27.
*Smith, Terry (2001). "Public Art between Cultures: The "Aboriginal Memorial," Aboriginality, and Nationality in Australia." "Critical Inquiry". 27:4.

References

External links

* [http://www.uap.com.au Urban Art Projects]


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