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.
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
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
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.