The Chapel Project goes public

Just as the build-up to Cementa15 starts to take over my every waking moment, my next project has now gone public with a story in this week's Dubbo Photo News. The Chapel Project is due to be performed in 2016 on the day Artlands opens in Dubbo. The project's title comes from the plan to perform and …

Kandos Projects residency: the report

Kim V. Goldsmith artist

Speed dating Kandos It’s fair to say I wasn’t very prepared for my week-long residency in Kandos, something I’d agreed to as an artist participating in the 2015 Cementa contemporary art festival (9-12 April). Exhausted before I’d started after a big year of consulting work and creative projects, and not sure of what I would …

Kandos Projects residency: Part 1

smell sensory installation Kim V. Goldsmith

The work on my installation piece for Cementa 15 has been a stop/start affair, even since refocusing and finding a new direction for the work after my Fire Station Arts Centre residency in late 2013. So it is with nearly all the sensory works I've been producing since 2008…they seem to all have long gestations. …

Burn baby burn

With the 2014/15 summer and fire season upon us on the Western Plains of NSW, the urgency to get the video component of my Cementa work in the can was becoming greater by the day. As chance had it, I lucky with the weather a couple of weekends ago, finding the perfect day for a burn. …

Countdown to Cementa

Not that I'm counting, but I'm estimating it's about seven months until Cementa 15 kicks off in Kandos. I've had a work in development since a three-month residency at the Fire Station Arts Centre in Dubbo last year, but the work has stalled for most of this year due to not knowing where in Kandos …