[1] 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.
Producer and promoter John Pinder arranged his first lightshow / concert in Melbourne, "The Electric Blues Thing" featuring Doug Parkinson in Focus, and The Semblence of Dignity, with Fogg providing the "psychedelic lightshow", at the Carlton Cinema in 1968.
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.
[5][2] In 2022 Foley Fogg was engaged to produce Lightshows for Byron Bay Bluesfest 2022 and for Nimbin Roots Festival 2022.
[7] The National Film and Sound Archive has described him as Australia's "most innovative lighting designer and lumino kinetic sculptor".