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Bundanon

Arthur opposed sand mining on the Shoalhaven River. He started to consider giving Bundanon  to the people of Australia. Arthur built his studio at Bundanon. 

Arthur returned to England in early 1982. He made the family house in Paretaio, Tuscany, available to the Australia Council for artists travelling overseas. Sandra McGrath’s The Artist and the River was published. Bundanon was open to the public for the first time in September 1982 as part of the Shoalhaven Spring Festival. 

Arthur returned to Australia and Bundanon in February. He painted a series of large, iconic Shoalhaven images based on the river and bush around Bundanon. He was commissioned to design the tapestry for Great Hall of New Parliament House. He created 16 canvases for the foyer of Victorian Arts Centre. 

He was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Melbourne. He returned to England. The Shoalhaven works were shown at Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Holdsworth Gallery in Sydney. 

Seven Persistent Images exhibition showed at Australian National Gallery, drawn from the 1975 Arthur Boyd gift. It toured nationally through to 1986. The film Arthur Boyd in the Landscape was made for London Weekend Television. 

Ursula Hoff’s The Art of Arthur Boyd was published. Arthur represents Australia at the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988 with eight major works. He was commissioned to paint Earth and Fire for the cover of TIME Magazine 28 November 1988 issue. He painted The Australian Scapegoat. The Boyd’s began to discuss the gifting of Bundanon with Federal Arts Minister Clyde Holding. 

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Bundanon acknowledges the people of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups as the traditional owners of the land within our boundaries, and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country.

In Dharawal the word Bundanon means deep valley.

This website contains names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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