Art

Margaret Fabrizio: Commitment, Not Complaining

by John Lacey on August 25, 2010

This video seems very timely for me. As Margaret explains creative people are bombarded with ideas and projects they’d like to do and sometimes this can overwhelm us to the point where we don’t do anything at all. (I chuckled because like Margaret I sometimes play solitaire to distract myself.)

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Knowing When To Stop…

by John Lacey on August 12, 2010

I’ve often been a little bemused watching some of Gary Reef’s videos. He’ll present something that, to my eyes, looks extraordinary. But sometimes you’ll detect a note of unease, a kind of restlessness in him. He isn’t crazy about what he’s produced, but by the same token he often doesn’t seem able to articulate exactly why. This confused me a little… until it started happening to me.

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Google’s Nod To Arthur Boyd

by John Lacey on July 28, 2010

I don’t know if people outside of Australia are seeing this but over the weekend Google have tipped their hat to Australian artist Arthur Boyd to acknowledge his 90th birthday.

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A Creative Catalyst

by John Lacey on May 20, 2010

Strangely it wasn’t this scenic imagining that got me started so much as when it became apparent that fantastical bubble had burst around me.

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