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 …

An incredible end to 2019

Kim V Goldsmith in Iceland

The blog posts have been missing in action here over the past few months as my time on Eye of the Corvus intensifies. I've been putting my energy into the website dedicated to this project, including two blogs -- one about the project, and the other about my time in Iceland and travels across Scandinavia on …

Who do you make art for?

Kim V Goldsmith Wild Wetlands sound artist Dubbo

Fresh on the back of mounting a new work over the weekend and the subsidence of the pre-show nerves that go with it, I'm pondering a question I've been asked, and asked of myself many times over the years: Who do you make art for? Andrew Frost recently wrote an opinion piece for Art Guide …

Fictional territories

Good things take time. Over the past three months, a lot of private correspondence has taken place between me and Hamburg based artist, Didi Hock, as part of our involvement in the international project, Arts Territory Exchange (founded and coordinated by artist, Gudrun Filipska). As we've worked on developing a better understanding of each other and how …

Like bees to a honeypot

#bringtolightprojects Kim V Goldsmith Kelly Leonard Bee Box Sounds

Bee Box Sounds is a gentle work requiring attentiveness and on the weekend of its installment as part of #bringtolightproject17, the public is too busy, too distracted, too disinterested to engage...except the children. Like bees to a honeypot. Children running. Children escaping their parents' attention for a short moment. Children scolded and told to hurry up …