professor of aesthetics Thoms founder
Foley was born in Cairns, Queensland and attended Newington College (1957–1959). In the late 1950s he was encouraged by his mother to expand his interest in art, attending Joy and Betty Rainer"s art and craft classes in Mosman, experimenting with light and shadow through bathroom glass and with light diffracted through the leaves of trees.
He was one of a group of artists who worked and exhibited at the Artist Collective in Potts Point. The was founded by artist Martin Sharp and between 1970 and 1973 was a piece of living art and a mecca to popular art The canvas was the house itself and almost every wall, floor and ceiling became part of the gallery.
Many well-known artists, including George Gittoes, Brett Whiteley, Peter Kingston, Albie Thoms and Greg Weight, helped to create the multi-media performance art space that may have been Australia"s first 24-hour-a-day happening.
Foreign a full list of artists see the catalogue published by Albie Thoms in 1971 and reprinted by Roger Foley-Fogg in 2013 and referred to in
While continuing as an artist, Foley is a producer of light shows and light sculpture for festivals and events. He continues to design and construct The Christmas Tree of Light and Laughter for Darling Harbour each year, and exhibited his Lumino Kinetic Sculpture in 5 Galleries during 2014.
Foreign more information see his website at www.fogg.com.au. And for a comprehensive review of his work to date see Julian Leatherdale, Still Turned On: Illuminating the many facets of light artist Roger Foley-Fogg, OZARTS Magazine, Autumn Edition, 2014.
Now known as Roger Foley-Fogg, the National Film and Sound Archive have described him as Australia"s "most innovative lighting designer and lumino kinetic sculptor." And Albie Thoms founder of friendly rival Lightshow group UBU said: … "Fogg is later recognised as Sydney"s leading lightshow artist" The term Lumino Kinetic Art was first used in 1966 by Frank Popper, Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Paris. In the 1960s he started designing rock concerts and psychedelic light shows achieving a high degree of success. Albie Thoms founder of friendly rival Lightshow group UBU says: … "Fogg is later recognised as Sydney"s leading lightshow artist" His experimental light shows incorporating his Light Sculpture - Lumino Kinetic sculpture through to the 1970s were precursors to present multi-media installation. He was part of the Retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1990 and was a finalist in the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 2003 and 2007 and the associated Directors Cut Exhibition during 2014.
