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 …

I did it: ACF campaign wrap

Kim V. Goldsmith Eye of the Corvus art installation

106% of the campaign target funded! My two-month crowdfunding campaign with the Australian Cultural Fund has come to an end...and what a two months it was. This was my first fundraising campaign for an art project. I knew what I had to do, but I wasn't quite prepared for the intensity of it, or the …

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 …