The outsider’s lens

REGIONAL FUTURES RESIDENCY: MID NORTH COAST NSW Crescent Head NSW Foreign land Fellow artist and friend, Anna Glynn, often talks about the first 48 hours of an artist residency as being time to see everything with ‘new eyes’, a period in which to experience things for the first time. It's an opportunity to use the …

What the past tells us about our future

Cathedral Cave, Wellington Caves

REGIONAL FUTURES RESIDENCY: WELLINGTON CAVES NSW Visitors on a tour of the Cathedral Cave, facing the alter rock, June 2022 On my final Regional Futures residency weekend at Wellington Caves, I made the focus on my explorations the site itself and people who know the caves and surrounding landscape intimately. These caves provide a snapshot …

Whatever we do has impact

REGIONAL FUTURES RESIDENCY: WELLINGTON CAVES NSW Wind turbine, Bodangora Wind Farm, Wellington, June 2022 The second stay at Wellington Caves as part of my self-directed Regional Futures artist residency took place over four days and nights in mid-June. The decision was made not to cram too much into the itinerary for this visit. Exhaustion doesn't …

Exploring regional creative collaboration

REGIONAL FUTURES RESIDENCY: WELLINGTON CAVES NSW Kim V. Goldsmith is a digital media artist and writer with a background in agriculture, journalism and marketing communications consulting in rural industry, natural resource management and other regional sectors. She's based near Dubbo and has worked across Regional NSW for the past 30 years. Contaminated by our encounters …

Making memories with sound

Apologies for the lack of regular correspondence in this blog. The last two years have been spent establishing the ecoPULSE.art platform for my project work. Artist and blog author, Kim V. Goldsmith My body sways to the four-beat measure of my horse’s walk—slightly slumped in the saddle, hands resting lightly on his whither, necks soft …

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