KV Goldsmith
@kvgoldsmith.bsky.social
🛠️ interdisciplinary artist 💚 sound 🎤 ecoacoustics 🐜 social ecology ✍🏻 storyteller🚶walking artist📍Wiradjuri Country, Australia
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Profile: ‘V’ drawn in sand. Header: Microscope view of a Christmas beetle.
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Profile: ‘V’ drawn in sand. Header: Microscope view of a Christmas beetle.
2 weeks out from summer & it feels like 6°C at 7.30am. I’ve been for a walk & had brekky outside watching an Eastern yellow robin, Double-barred finches and wrens at the bird bath. Roos are grazing in the paddock with Straw-necked ibis. Blue-cheeked honeyeaters are shrieking from the Silky oak 💚
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
2 weeks out from summer & it feels like 6°C at 7.30am. I’ve been for a walk & had brekky outside watching an Eastern yellow robin, Double-barred finches and wrens at the bird bath. Roos are grazing in the paddock with Straw-necked ibis. Blue-cheeked honeyeaters are shrieking from the Silky oak 💚
I’m thrilled to be a featured artist in the ecoartspace published book 'Soils Turn' & one of only two artists in a section on listening to soils. Marcus Maeder being the other. 'Soils Turn’ incl. 175+ artists from Europe, US, India, and Australia. It’s launching in New York in a couple of weeks.
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I’m thrilled to be a featured artist in the ecoartspace published book 'Soils Turn' & one of only two artists in a section on listening to soils. Marcus Maeder being the other. 'Soils Turn’ incl. 175+ artists from Europe, US, India, and Australia. It’s launching in New York in a couple of weeks.
The storms have passed.
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The storms have passed.
Just hanging about this weekend doing all the things I have no time or energy for through the week…reading, writing, laundry, walking, gardening and watching my garden ornaments graze amongst the native trees and shrubs beside the house 🦘🦘🦘
October 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just hanging about this weekend doing all the things I have no time or energy for through the week…reading, writing, laundry, walking, gardening and watching my garden ornaments graze amongst the native trees and shrubs beside the house 🦘🦘🦘
Pastel skies after a warm, grey, showery couple of days across the Western Plains of NSW.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Pastel skies after a warm, grey, showery couple of days across the Western Plains of NSW.
CALLOUT: arboreus.earth submissions. This is growing a global, virtual forest of sounds. Are trees near you on this map? If not, we’d love to see them included.
Details of how to submit are on the submit page of the site - arboreus.earth/submit/ Deadline for final 2025 upload is 21 November.
Details of how to submit are on the submit page of the site - arboreus.earth/submit/ Deadline for final 2025 upload is 21 November.
October 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
CALLOUT: arboreus.earth submissions. This is growing a global, virtual forest of sounds. Are trees near you on this map? If not, we’d love to see them included.
Details of how to submit are on the submit page of the site - arboreus.earth/submit/ Deadline for final 2025 upload is 21 November.
Details of how to submit are on the submit page of the site - arboreus.earth/submit/ Deadline for final 2025 upload is 21 November.
White-plumed Honeyeater eggs in a beautiful nest of woven grass and cobwebs, found in the back of my garden.
September 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
White-plumed Honeyeater eggs in a beautiful nest of woven grass and cobwebs, found in the back of my garden.
The view on my way to work in the mornings these days. A pre-dawn Dubbo City.
September 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The view on my way to work in the mornings these days. A pre-dawn Dubbo City.
My week in pictures. An early morning Sunday walk, a Saturday of conversation and listening on farm, and another week down of presenting the ABC brekky program across the Western Plains on NSW sharing ideas, laughs, information, and some great yarns.
September 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
My week in pictures. An early morning Sunday walk, a Saturday of conversation and listening on farm, and another week down of presenting the ABC brekky program across the Western Plains on NSW sharing ideas, laughs, information, and some great yarns.
I’ve just finished up my first week as the full-time breakfast presenter on ABC Western Plains. It’s where I started started my journalism career in earnest in 1992. Some call it full circle, others back to the future. It’s a new challenge. Radio has changed enormously in 30 years, but so have I.
September 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I’ve just finished up my first week as the full-time breakfast presenter on ABC Western Plains. It’s where I started started my journalism career in earnest in 1992. Some call it full circle, others back to the future. It’s a new challenge. Radio has changed enormously in 30 years, but so have I.
It’s the first day of spring tomorrow 🥶 The only thing we don’t get here is snow. Winter can piss off now.
August 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It’s the first day of spring tomorrow 🥶 The only thing we don’t get here is snow. Winter can piss off now.
The sounds of a virtual, global forest - 25 beautiful sonic tree and forest portraits from 8 countries, recorded by 14 field recordists. New listings now online. Take a break and plug into arboreus.earth 🎧 arboreus.earth/trees/
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The sounds of a virtual, global forest - 25 beautiful sonic tree and forest portraits from 8 countries, recorded by 14 field recordists. New listings now online. Take a break and plug into arboreus.earth 🎧 arboreus.earth/trees/
This is a bit rude for the end of winter. I don’t need this for my predawn work starts 🥶
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is a bit rude for the end of winter. I don’t need this for my predawn work starts 🥶
Wallaby today? 🦘 This fella has a story to tell 😕
August 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Wallaby today? 🦘 This fella has a story to tell 😕
After chasing radio stories all week, I’m switching gears this weekend with looming creative deadlines for an exhibition opening late October. Puzzling over how to supply a high res image for a sound work. I might have to use one of my macro photos of soil given that’s what the work is about.
August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
After chasing radio stories all week, I’m switching gears this weekend with looming creative deadlines for an exhibition opening late October. Puzzling over how to supply a high res image for a sound work. I might have to use one of my macro photos of soil given that’s what the work is about.
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.
August 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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.
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 💚
July 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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 💚
Today’s workplace 🌊
July 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Today’s workplace 🌊
It’s the start of wattle season. Yellow buds are on the cusp of bursting into yellow fluff everywhere here.
July 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s the start of wattle season. Yellow buds are on the cusp of bursting into yellow fluff everywhere here.
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.
July 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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.
Feed cleanse. That itch you just can’t reach.
July 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Feed cleanse. That itch you just can’t reach.
Winter afternoons are perfect for paddock strolls.
July 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Winter afternoons are perfect for paddock strolls.
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.
July 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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.
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...
July 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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...
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.
June 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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.