TRACE 2017: BIENNIAL EXHIBITION & ART AUCTION IN THE STREETS OF 4101

Fiona Foley born in 1964 in Maryborough is of Australia’s most significant visual artists. Foley has a heroic ability to communicate powerful ideas and concepts through elegant, understated and sometimes, humorous artistic expressions. Her aim she says is to uncover or recover Aboriginal histories. In her final year as a student at Sydney’s College of Fine Arts a sculpture of Foley’s titled Annihilation of the Blacks (1986) was acquired by the National Museum of Australia. Since then, Foley’s works have been collected by art museums around Australia and internationally including the British Museum, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, the National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Australia, the State Galleries in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, and Brisbane, as well as the Australian National University, Bond University, University of New South Wales, Curtin University of Technology, Flinders University, Griffith University, La Trobe University, Monash Gallery of Art, Murdoch University Art Collection, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland as well as corporate and private collections.