Josh Foley is an award-winning contemporary artist based in Launceston working on palawa land in lutruwita (Tasmania). He has had over twenty solo exhibitions of his work in Australia and France. His art has been in curated art exhibitions and shown as a finalist in prestigious awards in Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania, winning the prestigious and then richest landscape prize, The Glover Prize, in 2011.
Foley’s paintings are held in significant collections in Australia and the U.S.A, including Museum of Old and New Art [MONA] (Tasmania), Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery (Tasmania), ArtBANK (Victoria), Macquarie Collection (Sydney), University of Tasmania (Tasmania), and the Maxine Lieberman Collection (Beverley Hills, U.S.A).
Josh has been preoccupied with creating illusions of depth, using painting to create the appearance of relief space. By embedding visual illusions into actual relief space, the viewers’ reading of the artwork might be confused, and their psychological relationship to their environment and the world of objects around them is put into a state of flux.
Foley has wide experience with public art, creating work for corporate, government and institutional sectors. Over twenty-five of Josh’s works are featured in public contexts around Tasmania. Some recent clients have included Tourism Tasmania, The Library Archive of Tasmania, University of Tasmania, The Launceston Aquatic Centre, Launceston City Council, Devonport City Council, Taroona High School, and the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery.
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