Who Are These Strangers and Where Are They Going?
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Foley, Fiona
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2019
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Research Background: Fiona Foley is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists.Her practice has been consistently dedicated to the questioning of histories through personal narratives, forgotten archives and collective imagery.
Research Contribution: Her work renegotiates Australia’s historical erasure, often placing her own body at the centre of her photographs. Her autonomy as an artist and a woman signal the taking back of control of the White colonial imagery that has dominated Australian national identity since Colonisation.
Research Significance: It is the complexity of this task that Foley has teased out over ...
View more >Research Background: Fiona Foley is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists.Her practice has been consistently dedicated to the questioning of histories through personal narratives, forgotten archives and collective imagery. Research Contribution: Her work renegotiates Australia’s historical erasure, often placing her own body at the centre of her photographs. Her autonomy as an artist and a woman signal the taking back of control of the White colonial imagery that has dominated Australian national identity since Colonisation. Research Significance: It is the complexity of this task that Foley has teased out over her thirty-year internationally acclaimed career.
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View more >Research Background: Fiona Foley is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists.Her practice has been consistently dedicated to the questioning of histories through personal narratives, forgotten archives and collective imagery. Research Contribution: Her work renegotiates Australia’s historical erasure, often placing her own body at the centre of her photographs. Her autonomy as an artist and a woman signal the taking back of control of the White colonial imagery that has dominated Australian national identity since Colonisation. Research Significance: It is the complexity of this task that Foley has teased out over her thirty-year internationally acclaimed career.
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All Copyright: © Fiona Foley. Photography credits: Badtjala Woman – Photo: Greg Weight; The Oyster Fisherman – Photo: Carl Warner; HHH – Photo: Dennis Cowler; Wild Times Call – Photo: Peter Foe; Horror Has a Face – Photo: Carl Warner
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Fine arts
Photography, video and lens-based practice