Bundanon has unveiled WILDER TIMES: Arthur Boyd and the mid-1980s landscape, a major new exhibition and live program of 80s-inspired events, on now until 13 October 2024.
WILDER TIMES provides a snapshot into a period of cultural dynamism in Australia, when ideas of landscape, land ownership and environmental protection were actively interrogated.
The exhibition includes the work of more than 25 Australian artists of the mid-1980s. The starting point of the exhibition is Arthur Boyd?s renowned 1984 commission of fourteen powerful landscape paintings for Arts Centre Melbourne, which have returned to Bundanon for the first time since they were created. These monumental works are presented alongside over 60 works by other seminal Australian artists of the era. Artists include David Aspend, Mac Betts, Vivienne Binns, Brian Blanchflower, Arthur Boyd, Mike Brown, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Judy Cassab, Bob Clutterbuck, Liz Coats, Bonita Ely, Gerrit Fokkema, Helen Grace, Robert Jacks, Tim Johnson, Robert Macpherson, Susan Norrie, John Peart, Toni Robertson, Howard Taylor, Rover Joolama Thomas, Imants Tillers, Timmy Payungu Tjapangati, Richard Woldendorp, and The Women of Utopia.
Boyd?s commission for Arts Centre Melbourne in the early 1980s was one of several invitations to leading artists of the time by renowned designer, John Truscott, to create new work for the interiors of Arts Centre Melbourne. These commissions were integral to Truscott’s conception of the theatres a...