2020: a paradoxical year

On site at the CORRIDOR project (photo taken by Phoebe Cowdery)

2020 has been a year where less has become more, we were forced to live in the present for the sake of the future, and the only constant we could be sure of was change. It's also been a year of limitations and incredible opportunities. Eye of the Corvus landscape installation view, Western Plains Cultural …

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 …

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 …