Images are courtesy of Bundanon. Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales. Photography: Zan Wimberley

Images are courtesy of Bundanon. Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales. Photography: Zan Wimberley

Wilder Times brings together over 60 works by seminal Australian artists from the same time Boyd created this momentous body of work of Shoalhaven landscape paintings. Featuring the incredible painting by Imants Tillers Pataphysical man, 1984.

Exhibition Dates: 6 July – 13 October 2024

In 1984 Arthur Boyd was commissioned to create a series of Shoalhaven landscape paintings for the new Arts Centre Melbourne.

In this exhibition, Boyd’s 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.

Exhibition includes works from David Aspden, Mac Betts, Vivienne Binns, Brian Blanchflower, Arthur Boyd, Mike Brown, Arthur & 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.

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