Professor Terry Smith, a leading Australian art historian and critic, will talk on the importance of Arthur Boyd’s work in the mid 1980s, and its influence on writers at the time.
Professor Terry Smith
Terry Smith is Emeritus Professor of Art History at The University of Sydney, and Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at The University of Pittsburgh.
Smith is Professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School and Faculty at Large, Curatorial Program, School of Visual Arts, New York. Smith is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and in 2010 was named the Australia Council Visual Arts Laureate and won the Mather Award for art criticism conferred by the College Art Association (USA). In 2022, CAA conferred on Smith its Distinguished Teacher of Art History Award.
A founding Board member of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, he served on the board of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and is Board Member Emeritus of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Biennial Foundation, New York.
Wilder Times
Wilder Times sees the return of a series of Shoalhaven landscape paintings by Arthur Boyd to Bundanon for the first time since their creation in 1984 as a commission for the new Arts Centre Melbourne.
The exhibition also 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.
Find out more about Wilder Times.
Image Credit
Robert Walker, Arthur Boyd, Bundanon studio, 1985. Black and white negative. Robert Walker archive, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Louise Walker 2008, National Art Archive, Art Gallery of New South Wales. © Estate of Robert Walker/Copyright Agency. Image © Art Gallery of New South Wales.
