Rabbit Hole is about recovering creativity. Read essays, interviews, reviews on the art of writing, illustrating, film and more.
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.
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.