'Willydah', Narromine, 11 July 2024 Willydah, Narromine NSW This post documents the first field recording trip to the farm that the SOIL+AiR creative future landscapes project will be based at for the next year. SOIL+AiR is a creative rural research residency aiming to explore the rural landscapes and communities of the Narromine Shire in Central West NSW, …
Insuring my work for the future
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. Iโm half way through my 4-week artist residency at The Admiralโs 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 Ritesย 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, theย 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 …
