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Urban aboriginal artist -Fiona
Foley
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Born
in Queensland in 1964, Aboriginal artist Fiona Foley lived with her
parents in Harvey Bay, then at Mt. Isa and later in Hornsby (Sydney)
from 1982-83. After graduating with a Certificate of Art from East Sydney Technical College in 1983 Fiona visited St Martins School of Art in London for two months. On her return to Sydney she worked as an assistant to the printmaker Max Miller. In 1984 she returned to study at the Sydney College of the Arts and gained a Batchelor of Visual Arts in 1986. In 1987 she received a Diploma of Education from the University of Sydney. Fiona has travelled extensively over the country of her people at Fraser Island in Queensland as well as spending time in Ramingining and Maningrida, two communities in Arnhem land, in the Northern Territory. Near Ramingining she participated in a number of women’s ceremonies, an experience she has successfully articulated in a number of her works. She is a founding member of the Boomalli Urban Aboriginal Artists Ko-op in Sydney and was a recipient of a Professional Development Grant from the Australia Council in 1988. She was also Artist-in-Residence at Griffith University in 1988. Originally working in prints and forms of collage she expanded to larger sculptural installations in natural timber, shells, animal bones and more modern materials. This raw matter, a form of cultural memory, increasingly came to be collected from, and emblematic of, the beaches and shell middens of Fraser Island itself, as a way of reclaiming the history of her people and the land itself - an art practice carried on in a custodial role. In 1989 Fiona was the Print Instructor at the Ramingining Print Workshop. She is also the first urban Aboriginal artist whose work was collected by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. subjects and themes Dingoes, Thoorgine country, feathers, collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Central Collection, Australian National University, Canberra. Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide. Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney. National Museum of Australia, Canberra. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. exhibitions Individual exhibitions 1988 My Fishing Line is Still in the Ocean, Griffith Artworks, Central Theatres Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane. 1988 Roslyn Oxley9Gallery, Sydney. 1989 A Three Legged Dog Day, Maningrida Arts and Crafts, Maningrida. 1989 A Three Legged Dog Day, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. 1991 By Land and Sea I Leave Ephemeral Spirit, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. 1992 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. 1994 Fiona Foley, Roslyn Oxley Gallery 9, Sydney. Group exhibitions 1984 Koori Art ’84, Art Space, Sydney 1984 Butchers Exhibit Gallery. 1985 Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Sydney. 1985 Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Melbourne. 1986 Urban Koories, Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby. 1986 Black Australia, Sydney. 1986 Bari-High-Expo Arte, Italy. 1986 Art Bites, Piers 2&3, Walsh Bay, Sydney. 1987 Australian Aboriginal Views in Print and Poster, travelling exhibition, Print Council of Australia. 1987 Art and Aboriginality, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK. 1987 Boomalli Au Go Go, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Ko-operative Gallery, Sydney. 1988 From Pukumani Poles to Sand Paintings, Craft Centre Gallery, Sydney. 1988 De Facto Apartheid, Boomalli Exhibition, Performance Space, Sydney. 1988 Urban Aboriginal Art: A Selective View, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia. 1988 Australian Aboriginal Graphics from the Collection of the Flinders University Art Museum. 1988 ANCAAA and Boomalli, Boomalli Ko-op, Chippendale, Sydney. 1988 The Cocktail Party, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 1988. 1989 Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery, of Australia, Canberra. 1989 In Transit, Australian Exchange Exhibition, Drew Gallery, London. 1989 Australian Perspecta 1989, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. 1989 A Koori Perspective (Australian Perspecta), Artspace, Sydney. 1990 Paraculture, Artists Space, New York. 1990 l’ete Australien a’ Montpellier, Musee Fabre Gallery, Montpellier, France. 1990 Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990 - From Australia, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and UK tour. 1990 The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1990 Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Harvard University and US tour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. 1991 The Concept of Country, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney. 1991 Through Women’s Eyes, ATSIC travelling exhibition. 1991 Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court, Canberra. 1991 Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia. 1993 Ten years of acquisitions, from ANU collection, Drill Hall Gallery ACT. 1993 Gold Coast Art Prize 93. 1992 Crossroads-Towards a New Reality, Aboriginal Art from Australia, National Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo. 1992 The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1992 Tyerabarrbowaryaou, I shall never become a whiteman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 1992 Working in the Round, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide. 1992/3 New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, touring USA and Australia. 1993 Death, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney. 1993 RAKA, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne. 1993 Yanada (New Moon), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. 1993 Dream Time, Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. 1993 Urban Aboriginal Art, Jan Weiss Gallery, New York, USA. 1993 Lick My Black Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. 1993 Wiyana/Perisferia (Periphery), Satellite Event of the 9th Bienniale of Sydney, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative at the Performance Space, Sydney and New South Wales tour. 1993/4 ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians, Touring: Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark. 1994 Moving Sands, Tandanya, Adelaide Installations, Adelaide Festival. 1994 True Stories, Art Space, Sydney. 1994 Urban Focus, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 1995 Women’s Views-Art, Science and the Environment, Australian Museum, Sydney. 1995 Stories my Parents Sang, National Maritime Museum, Sydney. bibliography Aboriginal Arts Management Association, 1990, Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990 - from Australia (presented by the Aboriginal Arts Committee, Australia Council and Third Eye Centre, Glasgow), exhib. cat., Redfern, New South Wales. (C) Crumlin, R., (ed.), 1991, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, Collins Dove, North Blackburn, Victoria. (C) Foley, F., ‘Fiona Foley on Aboriginality in art, life and landscape from a discussion with Jennifer Isaacs,’ Art Monthly Australia Supplement (The land, the city - the emergence of urban Aboriginal art), 10-12. (C) Follent, S., 1988, ‘Griffith University Artist in Residence,’ Queensland Community Art News 3, 14. (C) Isaacs, J., 1992, ‘A Bitter pill for the white man (woman), Tyerabarrbowaryaou at the Museum of Contemporary Art,’ Art Monthly Australia 49, 6-7. (C) Isaacs, J., 1989, Aboriginality: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings and Prints, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland. (C) Johnson, T. and V. Johnson., 1984, Koorie Art ’84, exhib. cat., Artspace, Sydney. Johnson, V.,1987, Art and Aboriginality, exhib. cat., Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK. Johnson, V., 1993, Twentieth Century Dreaming, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Art and Asia Pacific, quarterly journal Vol. 1 No 1 December. 1993, Aratjara, Art of the First Australians: Traditional and Contemporary Works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists, exhib. cat. (conceived and designed by Bernard Luthi in collaboration with Gary Lee), Dumont, Buchverlag, Koln. (C) McCulloch, A., & McCulloch, S., 1994, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, St Leonards, New South Wales. Mundine, J., 1988, Aboriginal art, Art and Australia, Vol. 26, No.1. Scott-Mundine, D., 1990, ‘Black on Black: an Aboriginal perspective on Koori art,’ Art Monthly Australia Supplement (The land, the city - the emergence of urban Aboriginal art), 7-9. (C) 1992, Tyerabarrbowaryaou I Shall Never Become a Whiteman, exhib. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. (C) Murphy, B., 1994, ‘New partnerships, Aboriginal art within and beyond the museum, Art Monthly, April 1994, No. 68, pp.22-24. Perkins H. ‘Beyond the Year of Indigenous Peoples’ in Art and Australia 1993 Vol. 31 No 1 p 98-101. Samuels, J and C. Watson, 1987, Australian Aboriginal Views in Print and Poster, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne. Smith, B. with Smith T., 1991, Australian Painting 1788-1990, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition Lambert, A., 1984, ‘Shattering the myth that Aboriginal art exists only in traditional forms,’ Bonnin, M., 1988, Fiona Foley - Griffith Artworks, exhib. cat., Central Theatres Gallery, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld. Broadfoot, K, and Butler, R., 1990, ‘The fearful sphere of Australia.’ In 1990, Paraculture, exhib. cat., Artspace, Sydney. (C) Butler, R., 1986, ‘From dreamtime to machine time,’ Imprint 21(3-4), 13. (C) Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London. (C) Croft, B., 1992-93, ‘A very brief bit of an overview of the Aboriginal arts/cultural industry by a sort of a renegade or the cultural correctness of certain issues,’ Aboriginal Art in the Public Eye, Art Monthly Australia Supplement, 20-22. (C) Crossman, S. and Barou, J-P. (eds), 1990, L’ete Australien a Montpellier: 100 Chefs d’Oevre de la Peinture Australienne, Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France. (C) Crumlin, R., (ed.), 1991, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, Collins Dove, North Blackburn, Victoria. (C) Foley, F., ‘Fiona Foley on Aboriginality in art, life and landscape from a discussion with Jennifer Isaacs,’ Art Monthly Australia Supplement (The land, the city - the emergence of urban Aboriginal art), 10-12. (C) Follent, S., 1988, ‘Griffith University Artist in Residence,’ Queensland Community Art News 3, 14. (C) Isaacs, J., 1992, ‘A Bitter pill for the white man (woman), Tyerabarrbowaryaou at the Museum of Contemporary Art,’ Art Monthly Australia 49, 6-7. (C) Isaacs, J., 1989, Aboriginality: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings and Prints, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland. (C) Johnson, T. and V. Johnson., 1984, Koorie Art ’84, exhib. cat., Artspace, Sydney. Johnson, V.,1987, Art and Aboriginality, exhib. cat., Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK. Johnson, V., 1993, Twentieth Century Dreaming, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Art and Asia Pacific, quarterly journal Vol. 1 No 1 December. 1993, Aratjara, Art of the First Australians: Traditional and Contemporary Works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists, exhib. cat. (conceived and designed by Bernard Luthi in collaboration with Gary Lee), Dumont, Buchverlag, Koln. (C) McCulloch, A., & McCulloch, S., 1994, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, St Leonards, New South Wales. Mundine, J., 1988, Aboriginal art, Art and Australia, Vol. 26, Australian Artist, 1(4), 24-25. (C) 1986, Urban Koories, exhib. cat., Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby, New South Wales. (C) Marshall-Stoneking, B., 1986-87, ‘From the centre to the edge,’ Xpress 1(6), 28-29. (C) 1989, A Koori Perspective, exhib. cat., Artspace, Sydney. (C) 1989, Australian Perspecta 1989, A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (C) 1989, Boomalli Breaking Boundaries, exhib. cat., Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Sydney. (C) 1992, ‘Aboriginal Art’, National Gallery News, 10th Birthday edition, September/October 1992, p. 5-7. films Boomalli Five Koorie Artists (d: Michael Riley) 1988. (C) Mundine, D., 1992, ‘If My Ancestors Could See Me Now.’ In 1992, Tyerabarrbowaryaou I Shall Never Become a Whiteman, exhib. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. (C) Watson, C., 1990, ‘The Bicentenary and beyond: recent developments in Aboriginal printmaking,’ Special Double Issue Artlink 10(1&2), 70-73. (C) Wallace, D., Desmond, M., Caruana, W., 1991, Flash Pictures, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. |
 REGION Fraser Island state Qs'ld community Sydney born 1964 active 1984 art centre Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery medium Etching, aquatint, acrylic on canvas, carving, carved and painted wooden sculpture. Mixed media - photographs, mouse traps, candles, sand sculpture. limited edition prints |
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