Swimming in a clean ocean

Over a long weekend in October, I returned to the Mid North Coast and the Manning Valley for another round of field recordings and story gathering for my Regional Futures project, Vaticinor. Works are now in development for this project, in preparation for a small group exhibition at the Manning Regional Arts Gallery in March …

The outsider’s lens

REGIONAL FUTURES RESIDENCY: MID NORTH COAST NSW Crescent Head NSW Foreign land Fellow artist and friend, Anna Glynn, often talks about the first 48 hours of an artist residency as being time to see everything with ‘new eyes’, a period in which to experience things for the first time. It's an opportunity to use the …

Whatever we do has impact

REGIONAL FUTURES RESIDENCY: WELLINGTON CAVES NSW Wind turbine, Bodangora Wind Farm, Wellington, June 2022 The second stay at Wellington Caves as part of my self-directed Regional Futures artist residency took place over four days and nights in mid-June. The decision was made not to cram too much into the itinerary for this visit. Exhaustion doesn't …

Making memories with sound

Apologies for the lack of regular correspondence in this blog. The last two years have been spent establishing the ecoPULSE.art platform for my project work. Artist and blog author, Kim V. Goldsmith My body sways to the four-beat measure of my horse’s walk—slightly slumped in the saddle, hands resting lightly on his whither, necks soft …

Space, support and opportunities

Kim V Goldsmith artist Dubbo

Wandering to my studio at the bottom of the garden early on a Sunday morning, I anticipate a hot cup of green tea as I write on one of the coolest mornings we’ve had in months. My mind is on the subject at hand: What does it mean to undertake an artist residency? I open …

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