The Creative Coach with Dan Brophy

Tom Blachford and Kate Ballis are one of my favourite creative couples. They are both photographers, though this hasn’t always been the case. For the first few years of their relationship, it was only Tom who was the photographer, while Kate was working as a lawyer. Yet what started as a shared passion between them has grown into a thriving art practice and ever-expanding commercial endeavour.

They have built a highly successful wedding photography company, RaspberryRobot, which allows them to support their travel adventures - and it was on one such journey that Tom fell in love with the architecture of Palm Springs, which led him to create the Midnight Modern series, which opens in Sydney this Thursday, May 26 at The Black Eye Gallery in Darlinghurst in Sydney.

Of all the insights into their life and process that they shared, it was the way in which they combined their strengths to maximize both of their offerings as artists that I really admired.

I was very excited to sit down and chat with Tom – and Kate to talk about sharing life, space and practice in this, The Naked Creative Show: Couples Edition, all about Tom Blachford and Kate Ballis. 

 

Midnight Modern by Tom Blachford opens Thursday, May 26 at The Black Eye Gallery in Darlinghurst. More info: www.tomblachford.com or buy prints at: http://moderntimes.com.au/shop-by-local-artist/tom-blachford.

Kate’smost recent series on Iceland is currently available at Hub in Melbourne and Sydney. More info: www.kateballis.com or buy prints at: www.prints.kateballis.com

 

The meditation Ap that Tom referred, Buddhify, to is available at: http://buddhify.com

 

 

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Megan Morton is a hero of mine - not only for her tremendous creative output across a number of mediums, but because she has developed a career around her passions -  one that allows her to share and further cultivate them.

 

Megan’s work as a stylist unique and intuitive and inclusive.

According to her website, she makes atmospheres that make people extremely happy, which could be experienced via ad campaigns, magazine covers, when she decorates glamorous homes - or if you were to come to her Studio and School in Rosebery in Sydney’s inner west in order to learn how to do it yourself.

For our chat, Megan welcomed me into her home, poured me tea, lit insense and regaled me with her philophy on style and styling.

 

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Ryan Shelton may be familiar to Australian TV audiences through his in-front-of-camera work on Rove, The Hamish and Andy Show & Gap Year, the improv series Thank God You’re Here, however behind the scenes there is an even bigger body of work as a comedic writer on Chris Lilley’s ‘We Could Be Heroes’, everything 'Hamish and Andy' and most recently on the ABC series ‘It’s A Date’. He has also served as a radio host on Nova FM in a multitude of formations including the famed ‘Ryan, Monte and Wippa’ drivetime show.

We discuss his day-to-day process, how he broke into television and of course his Instagram comedy series(which is deserved of cult status), Cliff.

 

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