Kim V. Goldsmith
Kim V. Goldsmith is a multimedia artist, writer and creative producer based on Wiradjuri Country, near Dubbo on the Western Plains of New South Wales. Since 2008, her interdisciplinary creative practice has encompassed community engagement, field recorded sound, soundscape composition, video, photography, installation, story-gathering, writing and public programming. She brings a creative perspective to the challenging environmental issues faced by rural, regional and remote communities. Her work continues to evolve as she explores layers of nuance and complexity within the territories in which she works, seeking out the hidden elements that make them vibrate.
Through research, observation, field recordings, collaboration and creativity, she aims to present rural, regional and remote landscapes and communities - human and more-than-human, in ways that make the familiar, unfamiliar. Goldsmith uses verbal and non-verbal storytelling to tease out narratives of connection and give a voice to the voiceless. Her individual and collaborative works are presented and published in Australia and internationally in festivals, exhibitions, public events and online platforms.
Kim V. Goldsmith is the founder and lead artist of an ecological collaborative art platform called ecoPULSE.art, established in 2020 to initially facilitate an international collaboration exploring the social ecology and future of two Ramsar-listed wetlands in inland NSW and Shopshire, UK. It has since grown to include other collaborative initiatives including soil acoustics and regenerative farming projects. The most recent ecoPULSE.art spin-off has been arboreus.earth, launched in 2025. The site is indexing the sonic portraits of trees and forests from across the world, seeking to create a virtual, global forest of sounds. In 2022/23, Kim was one of 27 artists commissioned to create artworks as part of the Create NSW funded Regional Futures project. Her resulting project examined the impact of renewable energy developments on regional communities.
As well as being active in acoustic ecology networks within Australia and internationally, including a recent appointment to the board of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Kim is a founding member of the national walking art network, Australian Walking Artists. She also recently served a three-year term as a grand jury member of the international Sound Walk September Awards with global creative walking art network, walk · listen · create. Walking is central to Kim’s creative process as a field recordist, and as a facilitator of sound and sensory walks - events designed to create deeper connections with the natural world.