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 – 13 May), a member of the public stuck his head into …
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 …
Who do you make art for?
Fresh on the back of mounting a new work over the weekend and the subsidence of the pre-show nerves that go with it, I'm pondering a question I've been asked, and asked of myself many times over the years: Who do you make art for? Andrew Frost recently wrote an opinion piece for Art Guide …
Kandos Projects residency: Part 1
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. …