Exploring the future of the planet through enquiry, connections + creativity
ecoPULSE.art is the online home of ecology-centred, interdisciplinary projects exploring relationships with, responses to and narratives about our place in the natural world and within rural and regional territories, wherever they may be. Founded by Kim V. Goldsmith in 2020 for the Mosses and Marshes project, it has continued to support several collaborative, place-based, ecological art projects since.
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The Power of Sound Winter 2025 Masterclass
Learn about the craft of field recording sound (or brush up your skills). Winter 2025 enrolments open 16 May unless places fill before. Starting mid-June with the 3-hour online masterclass on 12 July.
arboreus.earth
Celebrating the sounds of trees in a virtual, global forest.
Listen to hear them singing songs of Earth.
Australian Walking Artists network
Australian Walking Artists is now incorporated and has its own dedicated website. Join a growing movement of art and walking artists from across Australia.
Regional Futures:
An Entangled Existence
26 Oct-23 Nov 2024
A group exhibition by 7 female artists from across Regional NSW, exploring the future of Regional Australia through an intersectional feminist lens that draws inspiration from the landscapes and the socio-ecological fabric of the regions.
Some of the deepest truths are expressible only by poetry or metaphor.
Dave Pritchard, Foreword, MOSSES AND MARSHES, 2021
KIM V. GOLDSMITH‘s interdisciplinary practice is informed by her past professional life as a journalist, farmer, and communications specialist in the agriculture and natural resources sectors. She’s also an experienced project manager and arts administrator. Kim’s deep love and interest in rural and regional ecologies goes back to her childhood growing up on a large working farm in central northwest New South Wales. Her creative practice over the past two decades has consistently explored the complexities and nuances of human relationships with the environment.
ecoPULSE.art was founded as an online platform in 2020 as a way of bringing together the process-driven, creative, social and acoustic ecology projects Kim had been developing over several years—documenting the processes of these projects and others that invite artists and other knowledge holders to collaborate. Projects are financed through grants, fundraising and self-funding.
WHO FOUNDED ecoPULSE
“Kim is an example of what regional arts should be, not art just made regionally, but art that questions and challenges regionality as a limitation, that sees in its extreme the opportunity to be revelatory.”
JESSICA MOORE, DUBBO REGIONAL COUNCIL CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR, 2019
Pictured on the cliff tops at the base of the Skagi peninsula, along the east coast of the Húnaflói, Iceland in 2019
ecoPULSE.art Projects
Using a range of art-making mediums, community consultations, research and investigation, storytelling, and immersive installation, ecoPULSE.art projects aim to consider and present new perspectives about the ecologies of rural and regional territories. We also love sharing our skills and knowledge. Our projects also include opportunities to learn from our artists and community experts.
Project field notes from past projects can be found in the blog.
Goldsmith’s Studio and Kim V. Goldsmith on social media
Since 2020, our projects have been funded through a combination of self-raised funds, fundraising through the Australian Cultural Fund, and Government grants.
We acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the lands on which we work across Australia and other First Nations countries, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.