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 …

What the past tells us about our future

Cathedral Cave, Wellington Caves

REGIONAL FUTURES RESIDENCY: WELLINGTON CAVES NSW Visitors on a tour of the Cathedral Cave, facing the alter rock, June 2022 On my final Regional Futures residency weekend at Wellington Caves, I made the focus on my explorations the site itself and people who know the caves and surrounding landscape intimately. These caves provide a snapshot …

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 …

Kandos Projects residency: the report

Kim V. Goldsmith artist

Speed dating Kandos It’s fair to say I wasn’t very prepared for my week-long residency in Kandos, something I’d agreed to as an artist participating in the 2015 Cementa contemporary art festival (9-12 April). Exhausted before I’d started after a big year of consulting work and creative projects, and not sure of what I would …

Kandos Projects residency: Part 1

smell sensory installation Kim V. Goldsmith

The work on my installation piece for Cementa 15 has been a stop/start affair, even since refocusing and finding a new direction for the work after my Fire Station Arts Centre residency in late 2013. So it is with nearly all the sensory works I've been producing since 2008…they seem to all have long gestations. …

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