[3] Foley read History of Art at Homerton College, Cambridge, where she was awarded the Westall Prize.
[5] Foley was a choral scholar and appeared on the television programme Faking It during her second year, where she was transformed from choir girl to rock chick.
[7] She was awarded her PhD by Kingston University for a thesis entitled "Lucian Freud Portraits: Curatorial Ekphrasis in Contemporary British Poetic Practice".
[17] In 2015, Foley's play An Evening with Lucian Freud appeared at the Leicester Square Theatre in the West End.
The one woman play with video cameos starred Cressida Bonas, Alastair Stewart and Maureen Lipman.