Source to Subject: Fiona Foley’s Evolving Use of Archives

Source to Subject: Fiona Foley’s Evolving Use of Archives

Since the 1980s, multidisciplinary artist Fiona Foley has created compelling art referencing her history, Aboriginal art, and her Badtjala heritage. In this brief essay, the author discusses an early series of Foley’s work in relation to ethnographic photography. This series connects to the wider tr...

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Main Author: Marina Tyquiengco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Genealogy
Subjects:
photography
Fraser Island
Badtjala
contemporary art
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/4/3/76
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photography
Fraser Island
Badtjala
contemporary art
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description Since the 1980s, multidisciplinary artist Fiona Foley has created compelling art referencing her history, Aboriginal art, and her Badtjala heritage. In this brief essay, the author discusses an early series of Foley’s work in relation to ethnographic photography. This series connects to the wider trend of Indigenous artists creating art out of 19th century photographs intended for distribution to non-Indigenous audiences. By considering this earlier series of her work, this text considers Foley’s growth as a truly contemporary artist who uses the past as inspiration, invoking complicated moments of encounter between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians and their afterimages
topic photography
Fraser Island
Badtjala
contemporary art
url https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/4/3/76
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