Lady Joan's Studio, The Admiral's House, Ollach, Isle of Skye As I sit in my temporary studio space on the Isle of Skye, 16,600 km from Dubbo, Australia I’m thinking about the why of my time here nearly every day. Distances like that will prompt a lot of questions. As someone who is very project-focused, …
+ other fascinating things A gallery of images from the UK, July - September 2023. All taken on an iPhone. Shropshire, England Isle of Skye and other places in Scotland ©️ 2023, Kim V. Goldsmith.
First sighting of land arriving into the UK in the early hours of the morning. The River Thames can be seen. The hip-aching, leg-cramping, sleep-deprived discomfort of 24 hours of flying from Sydney, Australia to London is certainly nothing compared to that undertaken by my Australian forebears—the convict, the free-woman, the Northern Irish and Irish …
Wambuul Macquarie River, Dubbo NSW Australia On a walk around my local river over the weekend, I was listening to podcasts* I rarely have time for, enthralled by not only the Scottish accents and fluent speakers of Scottish Gàidhlig—a language I’ve been learning for several months, but ideas of connection to land, language shaped by …
Published with ClimateCultures on 23 May 2023 Few of us in the ClimateCultures network would dispute that rural and regional territories across the world are on the frontline of climate change. In the past six years, south-eastern Australia has experienced severe drought (2017- 2019), described by our national weather bureau as “a situation with no …
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