Fiona Foley: Who are these strangers and where are they going?
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Fiona Foley: Who are these strangers and where are they going?
FIONA FOLEY: WHO ARE THESE STRANGERS AND WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
EXHIBITION DATES: Thursday 9 January – Saturday 8 February 2020
EXHIBITION LOCATION: NAS Gallery
OPENING NIGHT: Wednesday 8 January, 6 – 9pm
OPENING HOURS: Monday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm
CURATOR: Djon Mundine OAM
We are open SUNDAY 26 JANUARY, 11am – 5pm
As part of the 2020 Sydney Festival, the National Art School proudly presents Who are these strangers and where are they going?, a 30-year survey of the work of Dr Fiona Foley, one of Australia’s most acclaimed, insightful and challenging contemporary artists, curated by Djon Mundine OAM. Running from January 8 to February 8 in the National Art School Gallery, the show premiered in August 2019 at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale in Victoria. The title comes from a new work, a soundscape based on the oldest known Aboriginal song documenting the first sighting of Captain Cook in 1770, by Foley’s ancestors the Badtjala people of K’gari (Fraser Island).
Image: Fiona Foley, HHH #1 (detail) 2004, Hahnemühle Archival Inkjet Print, 76 x 101 cm. Courtesy the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
On Thursday 9 January, Dr Fiona Foley sat down with curator Djon Mundine in the NAS Gallery for an In Conversation event. Read more through the link below.
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