Tuesday, 10 March 2020

Fiona Foley's art of the uncomfortable: 'I wanted to provoke a conversation about racism'


Fiona Foley stands defiant and bare-breasted in her 1994 self-portrait series, Badtjala Woman. The photographs are a reclamation of a kind: Foley had come across an archival picture of an Indigenous woman, dated 1899 and simply titled “Young Woman from Fraser Island”. There was no mention of the wo

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