Archives: Performance, Installation Art and Sculpture

Video and Photos by Yannick Soyez “Only through compassion and inner peace, can one spread peace in the world. Inner peace leads to a peaceful individual and then this peaceful individual can build a peaceful family, then a peaceful community, then a peaceful world,” Dalai Lama I think if anyone can mediate peace in the […]

Shot by Yannick Soyez The video was shot in glary light but please purchase my Book Mothers Love so I can put out another book of essays I have already that I want to call am I going in Circles?

Video by Luke Foster shot by Yannick Soyez Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, 13 February 2008: “We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.” I won’t write much about this essay reading as its all pretty self-explanatory.

“Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.” Dalai Lama I shot this video with Yannick this morning and I was going to add an extra section shot on the beach […]

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”  Dalai Lama This essay was written a few years ago and is mainly about how Tibetan Buddhism has helped me cope with my complex problems mainly […]

Book reading from my book of essays Mothers Love. This essay is about the importance of teachers training the next generation. Video shot by Yannick Soyez. “Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility […]

Performance by Luke Foster and Video/Photography by Yannick Soyez “Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.”  Edward de […]

“Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.” Dalai Lama This work is mainly lesser works from art school days. My favourite was a rickety wooden and steel sculpture I made about the loss of my best friend Nick Cuttell […]

Literally Trying to Become the 15th Dalai Lama a Video Beach Shoot by Luke Foster/ Shot by Yannick Soyez By Luke Foster “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or […]

Video by Luke Foster (Shot by Yannick Soyez) I wrote this essay about how the Tibetan elder monks and Dalai Lama have taught me about life particularly about over coming suffering and experiencing deep compassion and forgiveness and love for our enemies and included it in my book Mothers Love. But I take it one […]

Video by Luke Foster “I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquillity comes from the development of love and compassion.” Dalai Lama The best way to have inner peace is by being tranquil. I had a breakthrough today as usually while I beach walk, I listen to pop and rock music but yesterday […]

Beach Performance by Luke Foster “ Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” Potter Stewart In this day and age ethics in big business is important especially with big companies such as Converse but more can still be done. I Googled Converse ethics […]

An Installation by Luke Foster “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”  Barack Obama I was going to add the art joke: No more fat and felt about trying not to imitate one of my favourite artists the German Joseph Beuys who used fat and […]

Kirra Hill Exhibition “I always hold out hope. Mediation is an opportunity for each side to present their case, and for us to get back to the table again.” Ron Weber I had a realization today as I gave some stuff yesterday but it wasn’t coming from my heart. Perhaps true giving and compassion is […]

Exhibition at Murwillumbah Library: March-April “To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision […]

“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.” Oprah Winfrey It’s around this time last year that my dear mum passed. I was at the airport in Rome when my brother called me with the news. My mother was my main mentor in my life and the sounding board of […]

Essay by Luke Foster I dressed up as Chewbacca today my favourite character from one of my all-time favourite movies Star Wars. In the title I joked: Who wants to be my Han Solo? As I am looking for a friend to have adventures with. But maybe I have found that in my platonic friend […]

Beach Performance “To be a teacher is my greatest work of art. The rest is the waste product, a demonstration. If you want to express yourself you must present something tangible. But after a while this has only the function of a historic document. Objects aren’t very important any more. I want to get to […]

A Residency at the Big Ci in Bilpin Australia “You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of ready-mades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.”  Marcel Duchamp I wrote another essay about this […]

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.“ Alan Alda   Since being at the current residency in the Blue Mountains I hit the ground running as I had three or four ideas before I […]

“It’s impossible to walk on the beach without making an imprint in the sand and taking some of it with us. Life is very much the same. If we noticed this, we might be more aware of our actions and words.” Words Inspiration website 25 beach walk quotes I beach walk most days for two […]

To be shown at Scratch Space in Sydney 26 September – 9 October 2023 Exhibition opening Event – Wed 27 Sep, 6 – 8pm This artwork shall feature video projection of the beach performance where I am dressed as an astronaut reading a book of drawings about the Dalai Lamas Buddhist philosophy and my own […]

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” Dalai Lama This art exhibition at Kirra Hill Community centre gallery is a mash up of mediums, ideas, and styles. Mash up is usually a term used to describe mixing up different songs to […]

“Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.” Charlie Chaplin  Chaplin was a fantastic slapstick actor and his legacy has influenced how film is still made today. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for […]

Drawing The Large Jacobean Ruff and Covid Mask Portraits “Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” “The way to change other’s minds is with affection and not anger.” “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” “An open heart is an open mind.” Dalai […]