Wilder Times: Season Two
In 1984 Arthur Boyd was commissioned to create a series of Shoalhaven landscape paintings for the new Arts Centre Melbourne.
In this exhibition, Boyd鈥檚 series of fourteen powerful paintings returns to Bundanon for the first time since its creation.
Responding to these paintings, WILDER TIMES brings together over 60 works by seminal Australian artists from the same time Boyd created this momentous body of work. The exhibition provides a window into a period of cultural dynamism in Australia, when ideas of landscape, land ownership and environmental protection were actively interrogated.
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In 1984 Arthur Boyd was commissioned to create a series of Shoalhaven landscape paintings for the new Arts Centre Melbourne.
In this exhibition, Boyd鈥檚 series of fourteen powerful paintings returns to Bundanon for the first time since its creation.
Responding to these paintings, WILDER TIMES brings together over 60 works by seminal Australian artists from the same time Boyd created this momentous body of work. The exhibition provides a window into a period of cultural dynamism in Australia, when ideas of landscape, land ownership and environmental protection were actively interrogated.
Artists on show
- Arthur Merric Bloomfield鈥� Boyd
- Bob Clutterbuck
- Bonita Ely
- Brian Blanchflower
- Corinne & Arthur Cantrill
- David Aspden
- Earthworks Poster Collective
- Gerrit Fokkema
- Helen Grace
- Howard Taylor
- Imants Tillers
- John Peart
- Judy Cassab
- Liz Coats
- Mac Betts
- Mike Brown
- Mike Brown
- Richard Woldendorp
- Robert Jacks
- Robert MacPherson
- Rover Thomas
- Susan Norrie
- The Women Of Utopia
- Tim Johnson
- Timmy Payungka Tjapangati
- Toni Robertson
- Vivienne Binns
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In July 1983, Arthur Boyd received the kind of commission that artists both dream about and dread: to create two large paintings and a suite of smaller works for the new Arts Centre Melbourne.
It was early in 1989 when I decided to head down to the South Coast, taking the Princes Highway from Sydney to Shoalhaven, to visit the painter Gary Willis, who at the time was living in the Singleman鈥檚 Hut at Bundanon.
In the Australian imagination, Bundanon鈥撯�榙eep valley鈥� in Dharawal鈥搃s deeply connected with Arthur Boyd and the Boyd鈥檚 dynastic legacy: the 1993 bequest of 1000 hectares of bushland, farmland, two homesteads and an art collection valued at $47 million.
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