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Twisted Firestarter

Friday, November 26th at 3pm MST
(November 27th, 8am AEST / 9am AEDT)

A raging fire is pure energy unleashed. That’s what I love about the British electronic dance music of The Prodigy. Their song Firestarter is full of uncontrollable energy. I saw The Prodigy play once in Cape Town, South Africa it was a mixture of deep fear and giving yourself over to witnessing the spectacle of impending excitement.

This event is a collaboration between the CoLAB and the KIAS’s Kule Scholar’s Program. Supported by the Kule Institute for Advance Study, the President’s Grants for the Creative and Performing Arts from the Killam Research Fund at the University of Alberta, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Dr Fiona Foley was awarded, The Inaugural Monica Clare Research Fellowship 2020 from the State Library of Queensland towards a publication entitled, Bogimbah Creek Mission: The First Aboriginal Experiment due for release 4 November 2021.

Foley completed her PhD with Griffith University in 2017. The thesis topic examined Queensland’s legislation, The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897. Her publication titled, Biting the Clouds: The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897, was published by the University of Queensland Press (UQP) in 2020. Biting the Clouds was recently awarded the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of Sate Significance in September 2021. 

Her new photographic series on this subject titled The Magna Carta Tree was received with significant interest and featured in a major retrospective exhibition at QUT Art Museum, 2021. She is a regular keynote speaker at conferences and symposia all over the world.

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 then at the National Art School, Sydney, 2020.