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| birth_place = [[Cairns]], Queensland]], Australia

'''Ellis D Fogg''' was the pseudonym of the [[Australians|Australian]] artist '''Roger Foley''' (born 24 January 1942). Now known as '''Roger Foley-Fogg''', the [[National Film and Sound Archive]] havehas described him as Australia's "most innovative lighting designer and lumino kinetic sculptor."<ref Andname='Ellis AlbieD. Thoms founder of friendly rival Lightshow group UBU saidFogg'>[https: //www.cxnetwork.com.au/roger-foley-of-ellis-d-fogg/ "FoggEXChange isRoger laterFoley- recognisedFogg] asRetrieved Sydney's19 leadingSeptember lightshow artist"2023.</ref> The term [[Kinetic art|Lumino Kinetickinetic Artart]] was first used in 1966 by [[Frank Popper]], Professor of Aesthetics at the [[University of Paris]].<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://fogg.com.au/foggcv.html#notes |title=Fogg Productions Pty Ltd<!-- Bot generated title -->] |access-date=1 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020031026/http://fogg.com.au/foggcv.html#notes |archive-date=20 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Foley was born in [[Cairns]], Queensland]] and attended [[Newington College]] (1957–1959).<ref>Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-19981863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp66</ref> 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. His nickname at school was Fogg. It derived from his ethereal way of pondering things. [[LSD]] was legal in Australia until 1969. The name Ellis D. Fogg represented a collective. It wasn’t just about him. People would come up after his shows and want to meet Mr Fogg. He would sometimes say that was his father and he had gone home to watch the television.<ref name='Ellis D. Fogg'>[https://www.cxnetwork.com.au/roger-foley-of-ellis-d-fogg/ EXChange Roger Foley- Fogg] Retrieved 19 September 2023.</ref> 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: ...said "Fogg is later recognised as Sydney's leading lightshow artist".<ref>Mudie, Peter. Ubu Films: Sydney Underground Movies, 1965–1970, {{ISBN|0-86840-512-4}}</ref> His experimental light shows incorporating his Light Sculpture – Lumino Kinetic sculpture through to the 1970s were precursors to present multi-media installation.

He was one of a group of artists who worked and exhibited at the [[Yellow House Artist Collective]] in [[Potts Point, New South Wales|Potts Point]]. The Yellow House was founded by artist [[Martin Sharp]] and between 1970 and 1973 was a piece of living art and a mecca to [[pop 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]].<ref>Transcript of TV interview by [[George Negus]] of some of the Yellow House artists on 15 September 2003</ref><ref Forname='Ellis a full listD. Fogg'>[https://www.cxnetwork.com.au/roger-foley-of-ellis-d-fogg/ Yellow House artists see the Yellow House catalogue published by Albie Thoms in 1971 and reprinted byEXChange Roger Foley- Fogg] inRetrieved 201319 and referred to in<ref>My Generation by Albie Thoms, Media 21 Publishing Pty Limited, 2012 - AustraliaSeptember 2023.</ref>

* ''Teen Riots to Generation X -– The Australian Rock Audience'', Peter Cox & Louise Douglas (Powerhouse Publishing, 1993)

* ''Festival and Event Management'', I McDonnell, J Allen & W O'Toole (Jacaranda Wiley Ltd, 1999) pp. 252–253 & 258

* ''Ubu Films -– Sydney Underground Movies 1965-19701965–1970'', Peter Mudie (UNSW Press, 1997)

* ''Recollections of a Bleeding Heart'', Don Watson (Random House 2002) pp. 333–337

* ''Kevin Kearney -– Audio Artist, Sound Designer, Analogue Location Sound Recordist'' Vol. One, Brody T. Lorraine (iUniverse, USA, 2007) pp. 91 & 107