These Arthur Boyd paintings, commissioned in 1984, show the Shoalhaven River landscape from dawn to midnight. Now, for the first time, they're on display in the place they were created.
Fourteen Arthur Boyd landscape paintings commissioned in 1984 have returned to their place of creation for the first time in 40 years.
"Arthur would go into his zone, and I loved the sound effects because he worked with his bare hands," she said.Boyd was enchanted by the Shoalhaven landscape and spent the latter part of his life painting the large-scale terrain that lined the river. "What they did was something extraordinary – they created a place for everyone, owned by everyone," Ms Kent said."And importantly it's for the appreciation of landscape and the natural world."
For the first time since their commission by the Arts Centre Melbourne in 1984, the suite of works has returned to the place it was created, Bundanon. "Here it's plain air, it's natural lighting conditions, it's quite different but it's really a return home."The art museum's Wilder Times exhibition invokes the vision Arthur and Yvonne Boyd had for Bundanon by allowing the audience to consider how wilderness has changed over time.
Curator Sophie O'Brien says she worked with a team for over a year to create the Wilder Times exhibition.Ms O'Brien said the Wilder Times exhibition also showcased how other artists from 1984 made sense of the "socially, culturally and politically dynamic time" in Australia.
Arthur Boyd Australian Painter Shoalhaven River Anna Glynn Paintings Shoalhaven Landscape Post-War Artist Wilder Times Exhibition Melbourne State Theatre
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