So, what’s the deal about crowdfunding?

Kim V. Goldsmith audio recording in the Macquarie Marshes

Mosses and Marshes aims to put the Macquarie Marshes on an international stage I’ve just launched my second crowdfunding campaign of the past two years on the Australian Cultural Fund platform. My first campaign raised just over $5 thousand – 106% of its target amount. This second campaign, Mosses and Marshes,  has launched in a very uncertain …

2020, please slow down

Dust storms continue to roll across Dubbo (summer 2020)

Eye of the Corvus exhibition ad in magazine at GOMA (Brisbane) giftshop (February 2020) The year 2020 was supposed to be a 'cruisy kinda year' on the back of what had been a whirlwind 2019 -- a quietish year to plan for more adventure in 2021. This post is about how that hasn't been the …

The debrief: looking back to move forward

It was the focussed joy of a special needs child experiencing my VR video in Eye of the Corvus that left me feeling that what I do is worthwhile. It was unplanned and unexpected -- no doubt for both of us, but it will be that little boy who handed me his plastic Australian flag on …

What does it mean to be a regional artist?

Skagastrond Iceland

Andrew Frost with some of the regional artists from the "Here and Not Here" exhibition, Cementa 2019 (L-R) Karen Golland, Andrew Frost, Kim V. Goldsmith, Fleur MacDonald, Julie Williams This morning I woke to another review of Cementa Festival in Artlink Magazine (5 February 2020), that referred to the inclusion of regional artists in the …

Eye of the Corvus: Q&A with Kim V. Goldsmith

Kim V. Goldsmith artist and producer

Eye of the Corvus: Messenger of Truth is a project and exhibition that came together over two years across rural Central and North West New South Wales (Australia) and rural Iceland (on the Skagi Peninsula in the north). The project aimed to record the landscapes of these regions from the perspective of ravens/crows (corvids). Following …