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Fiona Foley Fiona Foley i(8840600 works by)
Born: Established: 1964 Maryborough, Maryborough (Qld) area, Maryborough - Hervey Bay - Fraser Island area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Butchulla/Batjala/Badtjala
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1 The Work of Atonement : Bogimbah Creek Mission Fiona Foley , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2021;
1 2 y separately published work icon Biting The Clouds Biting the Clouds : A Badtjala Perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act Fiona Foley , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 20288202 2020 multi chapter work criticism

Biting The Clouds

A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897

'In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and injustices from the perspective of her people, the Badtjala of K’gari (Fraser Island). She shines a critical light on the little-known colonial-era practice of paying Indigenous workers in opium and the ‘solution’ of then displacing them to K’gari.

Biting the Clouds – a euphemism for being stoned on opium – combines historical, personal and cultural imagery to reclaim the Badtjala story from the colonisation narrative. Full-colour images of Foley’s artwork add further impact to this important examination of Australian history.'

(Source : UQP)
1 form y separately published work icon K'gari Fiona Foley , Larissa Behrendt , Tori-Jay Mordey (illustrator), Sydney : SBS , 2017 12361285 2017 single work film/TV

An interactive documentary telling the story of the shipwreck of Eliza Fraser on K'gari (later Fraser Island) from the perspective of the Butchulla people among whom she found herself.
1 The Politics of Art and Place Fiona Foley , Louise Martin-Chew , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Courting Blakness : Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University 2015; (p. 14-21) 'Courting Blakness...was a ground-breaking and historic event that comprised a public art installation in the heart of the University of Queensland's hallowed Great Court and a two-day symposium that extended the Indigenous debate in Australia into unprecedented areas...'
1 2 y separately published work icon Courting Blakness : Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University Fiona Foley (editor), Louise Martin-Chew (editor), Fiona Jean Nicoll (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2015 8903175 2015 selected work criticism

'In a bold and unprecedented project, acclaimed international artist Fiona Foley curated a cutting edge installation in the University of Queensland's sandstone Great Court. Universities have traditionally been elite institutions, overlooking and undervaluing the knowledge contributions of Indigenous thinkers, activists and artists. This history is etched into the walls of the Great Court, with anachronistic concepts of humanity and racial difference revealed in many of friezes and sculptural reliefs. Fiona Foley and her team of eight Aboriginal artists aimed to challenge these concepts...'
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