num_pages: 252
description: This unique biography provides readers with insight into the life of the artist: from her beginnings in Hervey Bay Queensland her young adult life in Sydney where she co-founded Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative in 1986 to her rise through the art world and most recently into an academic life.Martin-Chew allows us to see how Foleys life has impacted her art and how her art has impacted her life. It explores the artists familial relations her ancestral home of Kgari/Fraser Island and her unique approach to art making and teaching. The book delicately captures the art and activism of this provocateur. Its a triumph in storytelling and reveals that there is no art without life.252 pagespaperback b/w &amp; colour illustrations
language: None
title: Fiona Foley - Provocateur: An Art Life
publisher: QUT Art Museum