I've spent a lot of time staring out the studio window over the past two weeks, as I spend more time listening and writing in the space than recording in the field and editing as I might normally do. I’m half way through my 4-week artist residency at The Admiral’s House on the Isle of …
Exploring regional creative collaboration
REGIONAL FUTURES RESIDENCY: WELLINGTON CAVES NSW Kim V. Goldsmith is a digital media artist and writer with a background in agriculture, journalism and marketing communications consulting in rural industry, natural resource management and other regional sectors. She's based near Dubbo and has worked across Regional NSW for the past 30 years. Contaminated by our encounters …
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Brick walls and frozen thoughts
Iceland has captivated me since I read Hannah Kent's Burial Rites in 2013... I've long believed if you voice an intention, you own it and have a responsibility to make it happen. Sometimes I'm pushed to my very limits doing this - outside and within my practice. It's how, two years ago, I committed to spending …
Like bees to a honeypot
Bee Box Sounds is a gentle work requiring attentiveness and on the weekend of its installment as part of #bringtolightproject17, the public is too busy, too distracted, too disinterested to engage...except the children. Like bees to a honeypot. Children running. Children escaping their parents' attention for a short moment. Children scolded and told to hurry up …
Finding the heartbeat
It goes without saying that there's a fair degree of excitement at the start of a new project, as the creative juices are flowing and you're experimenting with ideas. Add another artist to the mix and you have double the excitement. So, it is with the beginnings of the collaborative work I'm developing with Mudgee-based …