As his landscapes return to the Bundanon Art Museum, I reconnected with a print that I’ve taken with me around the world.
Wherever I’ve lived for the past 30 years, artist Arthur Boyd was there too. A hand-coloured lithograph that I call Arthur, bought with the proceeds of a freak Melbourne Cup win, has hung on the walls of my homes in Canberra, Sydney, Washington and Paris.
That will no longer be the case. Bundanon plans to open a permanent Boyd Collection gallery space within the art museum this year. It will be designed by architect Kerstin Thompson, who won international and national awards for her design for the museum and the fireproof and floodproof Bridge, providing accommodation, that spans the gully.
In 1993, the Boyds said they gave their home to enrich the lives of ordinary people with “the beauty, the history, the landscape, the environment” so they could be stimulated by artists and their work.“He didn’t want all things Boyd,” Bundanon chief executive Rachel Kent said. “I always say to people, ‘It is a conversation between the legacy and the present’, which really supports his vision.
Detail from the Arthur Boyd lithograph Magic Flute, Queen of the Night that Julie Power bought after a Melbourne Cup win.Kent said the art museum would continue to offer its annual program of three “seasons” of changing contemporary exhibitions.
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