Archives: Performance, Installation Art and Sculpture

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” Rumi I love this quote by Rumi about grief transforming into one’s deepest compassion. I also feel the deeper the wound the deeper the compassion […]

“As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are […]

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama I love this quote about the nature of kindness and compassion and I try to always enlarge my circle of friends so I can be more, happy. This photo video shoot featured me drawing Saint Francis […]

“Never see a need without doing something about it,” Mary MacKillop I love this quote by Mary MacKillop and have used it many times in my art and essays. I think it is a great explanation of the attribute of altruism. In the video and photos, I am wearing a white Vista Print T-shirt with […]

Yannick set up an IKEA trestle table for me about a week ago out the back. I brought it up to my apartment living room and have been playing each day making improvised installations and this video documentation of photographic stills and a video and a selfie are some of the ideas I came up […]

“Intuition is neither a luxury nor a shortcut; in deeply uncertain environments, intuition is a necessity.” Roger Spitz This performance with a white TEMU intuitive thinking neon was made to go on top of a plaster sculpture that I haven’t made yet for my next exhibition but once I received it in the post, I realised […]

“f I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”  Gaston Bachelard Today Yannick did a video shoot in the living room of my apartment where I do my ten drawings a day […]

“People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behaviour, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.” Johnny Depp I have been working on lots of sketchbook projects and one of them is a sketchbook of drawings for Johnny Depp and […]

Video and Photos by Yannick Soyez  “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future”    Bradley Whitford. In this video photo shoot, I am wearing a maroon Connor suit and a TEMU  hat holding a simple cardboard sculpture I made months ago and Converse shoes. […]

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch This beach performance and installation and sculpture involves a simple plaster building structure on a trestle table at the beach with the ocean behind it in the shot. The second shot is me holding the sculpture in casual clothing […]

“Altruism is innate, but it’s not instinctual. Everybody’s wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.” David Rakoff This is a simple video photo shoot of me holding a white neon saying altruism. I feel that many people that I admire have altruism and it makes them happy and everyone around them who […]

“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”  Francis of Assisi This slide show of my art from the last few years is a rehash that I have documented and shown before. I like the Saint Francis quote to go with it as I feel when I have studied the teachings of the […]

“Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then ‘process’.” Edward de Bono Today Yannick did a photo and video shoot with […]

A video and photo shoot by Yannick Soyez “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”  – William Arthur Ward  I am not smiling today but once Yannick arrives and gives me a hug and makes me a cup of coffee with my coffee machine then I should cheer up. I feel a bit […]

“I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man’s jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with kitchen scissors.”  Jane Birkin Today when Yannick arrives, I am going to do a video/photo shoot of me wearing first white converse all-star sneakers holding a box with a small cardboard building structure […]

“A liminal zone, or liminal space, is a transitional area or state of being, existing between two distinct conditions or stages. It’s a place of ambiguity and uncertainty, often characterized by a feeling of being “in-between”. The term comes from the Latin word “limen,” meaning threshold. Liminal spaces can be physical, like an empty hallway or airport, or psychological, […]

Video by Yannick Soyez “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. “ Edward De Bono Today Yannick shot me holding a series of books I want to read that I have bought online over the past few years. Then at the end I did a […]

Video and Photos by Yannick Soyez I took the title of this documentation of a beach performance from one of Saint Francis famous quotes. There are several parts: me holding a simple plasterboard and plaster sculpture of a rectangular box with a small doorway at the front. I originally made this sculpture in 1995 at […]

My apartment is a never ending performance ground inspired by Katthy Cavalieres bedroom in a cardboard box performance at Artspace : Past Times Bedroom Series. Included are photos of my apartment when it was minimal and new shots of the jam-packed apartment with lots of art in the photos. It is a performance where how […]

An Exhibition at Kirra Hill Community Centre Luke Foster and install and documentation by Yannick Soyez 16th-30th June/ 9am-4pm 1 Garrick St, Coolangatta QLD 4225 “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Francis of Assisi This art work is an installation where different mediums within a […]

I wanted to do a video/ photo shoot today at the beach but Yannick suggested that we wait until later so we can do the shoot in the afternoon so my face isn’t in the shadow. The shoot is to go in my next solo show at Kirra Hill titled: “Sometimes I am a Scaredy-Cat […]

“Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.”  Bjork Bjork is my favourite musician and she is a casual genius when it comes to composing her music. But it’s her campaigning to save […]

Video and Photos by Yannick Soyez“Never see a need without doing something about it” Mary MacKillop This is a two-channel video installation that me and Yannick shot yesterday at my apartment for the first video and the second video at the beach. Normally we do just one simple video at a time but this time […]

Competing to be the World’s Greatest Grandmother/ An Installation by Luke Foster and with help installing and documenting Yanick Soyez “Find happiness in making others happy.” Mary MacKillop I love this quote by Mary MacKillop Australia’s saint and I hope to make people happy with attempts at humour in my art. This exhibition is a […]

Video and Photos by Yannick Soyez Me and Yannick shot this video today and the shoot was about literally and metaphorically swimming between the flags and over the years I have been rescued twice while surfing and swimming and so I have great respect for the surf lifesavers or clubbies as we affectionately call them […]