Kim V. Goldsmith

Over 3 decades, I’ve navigated my way through new processes, software & comms formats as needed with a little bit of on-the-go learning along the way. After a week in a new job, using an unfamiliar PC, software & apps I’d never seen or heard of before this week, my brain feels ready to explode 🤯

“Soils Turn” is co-edited by Ass. Prof. Arts & Research at Bauhaus University Weimar, Alexandra R. Toland & curator & ecoartspace founder, Patricia Watts. Limited edition of 300. Pre-orders being taken now - ecoartspace.org/Sys/Store/Pr...

The cover of "Soils Turn: A Field Guide to Artistic Earthly Engagements".

BOOK LAUNCHING IN OCTOBER // "Soils Turn" highlights the work of approximately 30 distinguished soil artists from across the world, and includes soil essays, and a directory of 140 soil artists. I’m thrilled to say my work of the past few years listening to Australian rural soils will be included.

They’re so judgmental.

A female King parrot and me hanging out on the deck at the house.

Signage at the entrance of the Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens.

Signage at the Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre in Moruya, partially obscured by lomandra.

A giant River Peppermint tree trunk with a path below it.

That’s a wrap! It’s been a fabulous week wandering & listening to the forests and waterways of South Coast NSW. With 160+GB of recordings in the bag, it’s time to head home and start creating. Big thanks to the the Botanic Gardens staff, the team at the Bas & Eurobodalla locals for your assistance 💚

Me wearing a striped tee, sunglasses, a cap and headphones standing on a rock ledge by the ocean.

Today’s workplace 🌊

Listening and recording the sounds of first light and dawn in the coastal forests on the South Coast of NSW. I was naming the the birds in my head as I heard them…was that a chicken? 😳 Yep, a clucking clucker 🐔amongst the native Wattlebirds, Currawongs, Honeyeaters and Kookaburras.

arboreus.earth The sounds of a virtual, global forest

Sun 27 July is National Tree Day in Australia. What a great excuse to have a listen to an Aussie tree...or maybe one from England, France, Germany, Venezuela, Canada, the US, or Kenya.

arboreus.earth growing a virtual, global forest—one soundscape at a time.

🎧 recommended - arboreus.earth/trees/

I’m sure of it!

Bright yellow wattle flowers.

It’s the start of wattle season. Yellow buds are on the cusp of bursting into yellow fluff everywhere here.

There are few things more satisfying than a desk clean. I have space.

🙏🏼 I appreciate that. Most of the time I know it. When the comments come from family in particular, it probably hurts the most. Many of the elders in my family (and many politicians) believe art is a hobby or a luxury, or something to make money from, and not something that contributes to the world.

I’ve been an exhibiting artist for 24yrs. My practice has been centred on ecological issues for the past 17yrs, the past 6 on full-time equiv hrs. I pay my bills doing part-time work in comms/journalism. I was asked today what am I doing while I’m ‘between real jobs'? Being an artist doesn’t count 🙄

Behind the grassy valley and trees on a ridge in the background of this photo, a solar development is being built.

It’s World Listening Day. I’m dwelling on what it means to be a listener. This week, my soundscape has been dominated by the construction sounds of a 444ha solar development, that will clear 68.5ha of native veg, incl. an Endangered Ecological Community. This soundscape is being altered forever.

A Red-necked Wallaby in my garden trying to have a scratch #1

A Red-necked Wallaby in my garden trying to have a scratch #2

A Red-necked Wallaby in my garden trying to have a scratch #3

A Red-necked Wallaby in my garden trying to have a scratch #4

Feed cleanse. That itch you just can’t reach.

World risks up to $39 trillion in economic losses from vanishing wetlands, report says The global destruction of wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture and flood control, may mean the loss of $39 trillion in economic benefits by 2050, according to a report by the Convention on Wetlands released on Tuesday.

“Some 22% of wetlands, both freshwater systems such as peat lands, rivers and lakes, and coastal marine systems including mangroves and coral reefs, have disappeared since 1970…” — in my lifetime. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Three kangaroos in long grass li with late afternoon sun.

A honeybee on the white flowers of Boobialla.

A mown path in long grass looking towards the glare of the afternoon sun.

Looking up into the canopy of a very old Mugga Ironbark. Blue sky behind.

Winter afternoons are perfect for paddock strolls.

Me facilitating a ceremonial commemoration called ‘5 minutes of silence’ in memory of the species and ecosystems we’ve lost and are losing. About 15 people are gathered around me for this micro event.

Curator, Kevin Wilson and Greenfields Gallery owner/artist, Robyn Glade-Wright standing side by side at the official opening of Coming Together: Right Here Right Now at Kin Kin in Queensland.

Sunshine Coast artist Tanya Hoddinott listening and feeling the clicks, crackles, and rumbles from the Listening Lab I set up with microphones and a speaker beside a spring-fed lake at the gallery site.

Home again after an exhausting & exhilarating week with members of the Artists in Nature International Network at a Floating Land festival satellite event around Noosa. Big ideas, thoughtful practices, huge concerns for the future of the arts and the environment, but our strength is the collective.

Thank you. It is worth a think. It’s still not clear cut for me either, and depends on what lens I’m looking at it with.

Omni microphones mounted either side of a Buloke trunk, also known as tree ‘ears’.

The ethics of listening (and recording). Exploring my thoughts on a question of how we use technology to listen in on non.human worlds. kvgoldsmithart.com/2025/06/26/e...

Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Venice Biennale representative after independent review into dumping Artist says Creative Australia’s decision renews his confidence in integrity of body’s selection process

An overdue reinstatement. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Yes, very showy 😊

A bright green parrot with remote and red markings on the front of its head, feeding in a River Red Gum.

A bright green parrot with remote and red markings on the front of its head, feeding in a River Red Gum. Another photo of the same bird.

I’ve been lucky enough to work around a tree full of Superb parrots today. A vulnerable species in NSW and more broadly. I had 2 hours of parrot antics while I was field recording, before moving to another site.

A photo of an ephemeral wetland covered in grass, ringed by established eucalyptus trees of different species.

This will be my workplace tomorrow. A bit chilly, for sure, but lots to listen to and play with. This is getting close to one of the last field recording trips as part of my SOIL+AiR project. eco-pulse.art/soil-air/

Peace in the busy city. I heard Tom Saunders say last week that winter temperatures were yet to come. Given the sub-zeros we’ve already had inland that’s not something to look forward to.

Today’s the first Monday in 5 years I’ve not woken thinking about work and how to fill several social media platforms with content for the next week/month—something I’ve done since 2005. I never want to create marcoms content for anyone other than me ever again. I’ve been at it since 1996.

I’ll have to go back and watch that scene. I didn’t realise it was GRRM with RR.

Kosta and I playing with old abadoned farm machinery - talking about the sound making possibilities of it.

Kosta listening to a Bimble Box tree in a paddock with contact mics at the base of the tree.

Farmer Bruce Maynard talks Kosta through the practice of No-Kill Cropping in a paddock of grasses, shrubs and oats.

It was a great day on farm today with a visiting artist/researcher, Kosta from Flinders Uni, talking about the intersection of art, ecology and agriculture with my SOIL+AiR collaborator, farmer/agro-ecologist, Bruce Maynard. A lot of talking, walking, exploring, thinking, and listening.

Even visitors from snowy countries realise Australian winters feel too cold Tourists are stunned to discover they were warmer back in a country that's blanketed by snow for months of the year.

Feels like -5°C 🥶. I don’t live in a regular weatherboard or brick veneer house but even our ‘80s passive solar house is freezing this winter. Double glazing is the answer, but way too expensive. We make use of the sun during the day but we wear extra layers at night. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

You don’t realise how many online accounts you have until you start logging out or deleting your profile. I finished up in a job today, 1 month short of 5 years. It’s also hard to know how much detail to include in a handover to someone else who has to make the role theirs anyway.