A Love Letter is a personal story 30 years in the making, told through the sounds and imagery of the waters, forests and soils of the Eurobodalla region of the South Coast. Sound artist and writer, Kim V. Goldsmith holds space for the voices of more-than-human species in the telling of her experiences and relationship with the region, and places she’s visited with her family since the 1990s. The collection of moving images, field recorded sound, and installation works capture the signature sounds of the Eurobodalla region—from the mountains to the sea, from a human and more-than human perspective. This is the lands of the people of the Yuin Nation, traditional custodians of an area now known as Eurobodalla Shire. ARTIST BIO
1. A Love Letter, 2026
field recorded soundscape composition and video projection, duration: 7’55”. NFS
A Love Letter is a layered, multi-track soundscape composition of field recorded sounds woven together with drones, chords, music, and video imagery, expressing deep respect, love, and a resonance with the more-than-human inhabitants and fragile ecosystems of the Eurobodalla region — a world that can provide solace and refuge, and places to explore, learn from, and to reflect on the importance of this life to our collective future.
2. A forest of sound, 2026
A2, A3 and A4 spectrogram prints on matte polyester film. POA.
Spectrograms are visual digital representations of sound, showing the frequency (height of the blue marks) and amplitude (intensity of the blue marks) over time. Each poster is a soundscape from the Eurobodalla region, including the forests of Murramarang and Clyde River National Parks, the Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden, King Parrots, Lorikeets and Currawongs, the sounds of whispering Casuarinas, and the waters of Durras Lake. The posters have been arranged as if they were elements of a spectrogram timeline – creating a visual, composite forest of sound.
3. Mixed Tape Summers, 2026
sound installation including field recorded soundscape composition on multi-media cassette player, headphones, 18 scores for listening and walking as liner notes in vintage cassette tape cases, notepad and pens, duration: 14’00”. NFS
Mixed Tape Summers invites you to enact this work beyond the walls of the gallery. The provocations and scores for listening and walking are based on the artist’s sensorial explorations of the Eurobodalla region over many years. They gently prompt you to slow down, to listen attentively so the natural world resonates more deeply. The accompanying soundscape provides a listening experience as you read the scores. Photograph your favourites to take it with you to ponder or act upon.
4. Float, 2025
looping video with field recorded soundscape on monitor, duration: 5’00”. NFS
Float was originally created with the artist’s daughter at Durras Lake in 2014. The video has been re-edited with a new soundtrack recorded on location at the lake in 2025. It’s a meditative piece in short loops, bringing together sounds of the lake environment, above and beneath the surface of the water, as it gently laps the face of the floating child still at peace with the natural world.
5. Listen, 2026
sound installation including field recorded soundscape composition, vintage timber box, photographic prints, dried leaves and bird nest, mp3 player and speaker
duration: 6’00”. NFS
Listen is a tribute to the Eurobodalla Region Botanic Garden. Recordings were gathered over several days in late winter 2025. You’re invited to lean in to listen as you take a sonic journey from at the entrance of the gardens, through the forests, dipping beneath the surface of the lake, and along the creek, before returning to the entrance. Listen carefully, all you hear is not what it seems.
6. Wall texts
poetic prose, vinyl wall text. NFS
These text works began as field notes — ideas jotted down in the moment, that became poetic prose about connections to place, entanglements, and resonance with more-than-human species.
6a. I am the line in the sand, 2025
6b. I am the forest, 2025
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