Autumn heralds a new stage for M+M

Hello <<First Name>>,

I'm very aware that we're now into March as I write this latest issue of ecoBYTE. The lack of updates since January lies squarely with the fact there are only 28 days in February...Yes, it's been busy.

After a strangely cool summer spent conducting final field trips, planning exhibitions and public programming, and writing grant applications to fund the year ahead, we're now heading into autumn in Australia and the beginning of the post-production stage of Mosses + Marshes.

I returned to the Marshes to spend a night at "Burrima" on 19 and 20 February - almost 12 months to the weekend I first stayed overnight in 2020. What a difference a year makes when you add water! An incredibly fruitful trip, I've now documented it on the website - the link as it the end of this bulletin.

The mapped stories are still being collected, and the late February trip saw two more added to the story map. You can hear them online now. Look out for stories from Bertie Bartholomew - who grew up with the Marshes as his playground and continues to live in the area today, and Wayne Forrester - a Wiradjuri man who has created a series of carved timber artworks on "Burrima" in response to his observations of the wetland and surrounding floodplain.

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Eye of the Corvus artist talk with Prue Cullen at Outback Arts

On 5 March I headed north to Coonamble for an artist talk at Outback Arts that wrapped up my second summer showing of Eye of the Corvus. The talk was designed to be a chat with fellow exhibiting artist and ceramicist, Prue Cullen, who also has a strong environmental bent to her work. We sat amongst her gorgeous native animal-themed 'saints and shrines', talking over an hour about our work - what informs it, motivates us, what it does for us when we're in dark places, and how we process our place in the world at the moment. Our audience was interested and engaged, keeping the conversation going well into the night. Big thanks to Jamie-Lea and Maddi at Outback Arts for their support of this show. I'm looking forward to continuing the relationship over the coming year as we work on bringing Mosses + Marshes to the space and surrounding communities in 2022 - Coonamble being on the eastern edge of the Macquarie Marshes catchment.



I'm taking a break for a short while this month, my first holiday since returning from Iceland in November 2019. I'll most probably be doing a great deal of thinking, writing, and maybe even some editing while I'm away, as the deadlines for exhibition-ready work come into view. I'm sure there will be some good news to share in the April issue of ecoBYTE.


Kim V. Goldsmith
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