Fiona Foley

Title

Fiona Foley

Birth Date

1964

Birthplace

Wondunna, Badtjala

Primary Sources

Foley, F. (2024). Remembering Those Who Have Gone Before. In, Grieves, G., Spiers, A. (Eds). Art and Memorialisation. Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World, vol 6. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6289-7_6 

Foley, F., & Balla, P. (2022). After Boomalli: Art, Activism, and Feminism - Fiona Foley in Dialogue with Paola Balla. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art, 22(2), 151–159. 
https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2151552

Foley, F. (2021) Bogimbah Creek Mission: the first Aboriginal experiment. Booral, Queensland: Pirri Productions. ISBN 9780646848488 Accessed Aug 8, 2022.  http://hdl.handle.net/10072/417001

Foley, F. (2020). Biting the clouds: a Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702262982 
https://www.uqp.com.au/books/biting-the-clouds

Foley, F Nicoll, F. Volcic, Z and O’Donnell, D (2018). Creative Frictions in the Neoliberal University: Courting Blakness at The University of Queensland. In Bottrell, D., and Manathunga C., (Eds.) Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume I. Palgrave MacMillan, 
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95942-9_9

Foley, F., Martin - Chew, L., and Nicoll, F. (2015) Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University, University of Queensland Press, 9780702253805. 
https://www.uqp.com.au/books/courting-blakness-recalibrating-knowledge-in-the-sandstone-university

Foley. F. (2006) The art of politics the politics of art: the place of indigenous contemporary art. Southport, Queensland: Keeaira Press.

Secondary Sources

Foley, F., & Martin-Chew, L. (2021). "It is important to know your history to understand society today”: Fiona Foley in conversation with Louise Martin-Chew. Art Monthly Australasia, 329, 78–83. 
https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.003106038636437

Tyquiengco, M. (2019). Black Velvet: Aboriginal Womanhood in the Art of Fiona Foley. Feminist Studies, 45(2/3), 467–500. 
https://doi.org/10.15767/feministstudies.45.2-3.0467

Extra Resources

Dr. Fiona Foley: Art, Activism, and Global Crisis, May 28, 2022, KIASualberta, Inroduced by Dr Fiona Nichol, Accessed Nov 2, 2022. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a5AtDThjRk

Ngargee Djeembana: On the materiality of public space and Country, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM and Sarah Lynn Rees in conversation with Max Delany, 9 November 2021, Accessed Nov 2, 2022. 
https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4916/ngargee-djeembana-on-the-materiality-of-public-spa/

Film: Out of the Sea Like Cloud (2019), Pitt Rivers Museum: Vimeo, Accessed Nov 2, 2022. Accessed Nov 2, 2022.  https://vimeo.com/460921449

Fiona Foley(2009)  artist talk: Forbidden' exhibition, Nov 15, 2016, MCA, Video YouTube, Accessed Nov 2, 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3mFz3CnAiw

Collection

Citation

“Fiona Foley,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed July 28, 2026, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/166.

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