Remembering How to Play
/Play is essential to creativity. This issue is about remembering how to do it.
Read MoreRabbit Hole is about recovering creativity. Read essays, interviews, reviews on the art of writing, illustrating, film and more.
Play is essential to creativity. This issue is about remembering how to do it.
Read MoreRacism hurts all of us because—as Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from a Birmingham jail cell—we are all "caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."
Read MoreGot a project you’ve always been meaning to start but felt it was all too hard? This issue is for you.
Read MoreThe day the Japanese author Haruki Murakami discovered he wanted to be a writer and how, later, he found his voice.
Read MorePaying artists should be way easier than it is.
Read MoreAll about having time to play, and making stuff for yourself first before showing others.
Read MoreThis week’s post is inspired by the 2015 US Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage and the idea: “In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.”
Read MoreAn online zine about Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining.
Read MorePart one of double issue that looks at the amazing work of French-American artist and sculptor, Louise Bourgeois.
Read MorePart two of a double issue on Louise Bourgeois: a special interview with a midwife. Kind of like ‘Interview with a Vampire,’ but less Tom Cruise jumping up and down on a couch.
Read MoreThis issue is about thinking less in terms of deficits; more thinking about potential and what to do to capitalise on it.
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 MoreReading Charles Bukowski’s work confirms my sneaking suspicion that art is not as hard as I make it.
Read MoreI’ve got an apocalypse worth of unfinished projects. But rather than keeping hold of them, I’m wondering if I need to mourn them a little and then put them, and me, out of our misery.
Read MoreA super short piece about super short pieces, including the shortest novel ever written (supposedly).
Read MoreA short piece about budgies, death and a giant rabbit that lives on the moon.
Read MoreIn this week’s double issue, my good friend Matt Roberts becomes Rabbit Hole’s second guest contributor.
Read MoreFor those of you with a fetish for stationery.
Read MoreRabbit Hole’s first guest contributor talks about his favourite covers.
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.