Keynote Speakers
Dr. Fiona Foley
Artist, writer, curator, research fellow and recipient of the inaugural Monica Clare Research Fellowship from the State Library of Queensland.
Dr. Foley is also the recipient of the highly prestigious Capstone Editing Early Career Academic Research Grant for Women for 2020 and received a grant from the newly established Cherish Fund, Australia Council for the Arts to create a new photographic series on her traditional country
Fiona’s latest book, Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897 was published recently by University of Queensland Press.
Foley has exhibited for the past 35 years, taking part in her first exhibition, Koori Art 84 at Art Space, Sydney. Fiona Foley is a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-operative. She exhibits regularly in Australia and internationally. Her recent solo exhibitions were held at Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane 2017, Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2019 and the National Art School, Sydney, in 2020.
In 2014 she was the recipient of an Australia Council Visual Arts Award.
She is a regular keynote speaker at conferences and symposia all over the world. Most recently she convened Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University (2014) at the University of Queensland, where she was an Adjunct Professor (2011-2017).
