A collaborative essay by Kim V. Goldsmith, Narelle Vogel, Joanne Stead, Anna Glynn, Tracy Luff, Jane Richens, Laura Baker and Tania Hartigan, October 2024. First published on ClimateCultures, 21 October 2024 Regional Futures: An Entangled Existenceย is a collection of artworks informed by an intimate knowledge of Regional New South Wales, created by seven female artists …
Language of intent
A red moon rising through the smoke haze of the droughted landscape of our farm near Collie NSW in the 2006-07 bushfire season, causing some of the worst bushfire smoke since records began, triggering an increase in the incidence of asthma. This smoke was from fires hundreds of kilometres away. Photo: Kim V. Goldsmith, November …
The deliberate act of listening
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 Gร idhligโa language Iโve been learning for several months, but ideas of connection to land, language shaped by …
Regional Futures: Giving Voice to Human and More-Than-Human
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 โa situation with no …
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Is this art?
Installation view of the Vaticinor space in the Regional Futures: Box of Possibilities exhibition at the Manning Regional Art Gallery While putting the finishing touches on the installation of my Vaticinor series works at Manning Regional Art Gallery (MRAG), as part of the Regional Futures exhibition (23 March โ 13 May), a member of the public stuck his head into …
