Rabbit Hole is about recovering creativity. Read essays, interviews, reviews on the art of writing, illustrating, film and more.
To be an artist, constantly risking your self-esteem by putting things out there in the world, requires a certain level of masochism. But how can that masochism be harnessed for good?
Read MoreBrian Eno and Peter Schmidt developed a series of cards to help artists break through their creative blocks and take risks in their work.
Read MorePaying artists should be way easier than it is.
Read MoreA short while back past Rabbit Hole contributor Matt Roberts and I dared a friend of ours to make something out of a story he told us about Dustin Hoffman—and he did!
Read MoreRabbit Hole’s first guest contributor talks about his favourite covers.
Read MoreWhy are some covers awful and others awesome? It’s all about you, that’s why.
Read MoreThe third and final in my series on my favourite guitarists includes an awesome cover of the theme song to Charmed.
Read MoreYoung? Artistically minded? Tired of being chased by bogans? This Rabbit Hole is for you.
Read MoreHow do you create a film with no actors and no budget? Easy! Well, easyish.
Read MoreThis year, rather than let other pressures dictate how I spend my time, I thought I’d try an experiment. Well, not one—365 of them.
Read MoreSometimes, creatively, what you do on the outside is more important than what’s on the inside.
Read MoreThis Rabbit Hole is a fist in the air to all my favorite axe-wielding maniacs!
Read MoreThis Rabbit Hole is about scrapbooking, poetry and post-punk indie-rock.
Read MoreRecently, I was looking for something about reading to kids, and I happened across an educational theorist from New Zealand with some really great ideas about teaching and learning, which made a few things fall into place about being a parent too.
Lia McKnight is a Perth-based artist who seamlessly moves between drawing, textiles, installation and sculpture. McKnight’s beautifully strange, yet eerily familiar works confuse the boundaries between the ‘natural’ and the ‘personal’—an idea that she and eleven other artists explore in a new group show at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Mum’s recurring complaint is that dad never finishes anything. There’s a half-built brick barbecue at the end of the garden that in twenty years has never seen a hotplate, let alone a sausage or steak. It was the same too with the model train layout he built for me as a kid, which never sported truck nor track. But I didn’t realise till now that not finishing things could be a good thing, a helpful trick to keep your creativity on track.
More difficult than knowing where to begin is knowing when to stop. Pieces of writing we’re working on. Bad relationships. Eating. But when it comes to finding the best ending for a creative work, the perfect solution might be right under our noses.
Can’t afford an expensive holiday overseas? Take some advice from an eighteen century writer, soldier and artist under house arrest and go on a magical sight-seeing tour of your very own home.
To be an artist, constantly risking your self-esteem by putting things out there in the world, requires a certain level of masochism. But how can that masochism be harnessed for good?
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt developed a series of cards to help artists break through their creative blocks and take risks in their work.
We can only hope that the resurgence of the extreme right in America inspires an equally strong counterculture. In the era of Trump, only punk can save us now.
Author H.G. Wells had some great advice for writers, which is equally good advice for teachers too.
Make Your Own Rabbit Hole is about recovering creativity. Read essays, interviews, reviews and much more on writing, art, film and all things creative.
Painter Tracey Read talks about spending four weeks painting and drawing her way around Italy.