Cellist Richard Narroway brings Boyd’s paintings to life in the Art Museum, performing works by Australian composers of the mid-1980s featuring a repertoire including solo cello works by Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards.
Arthur Boyd had a passion for music, he listened to a range of classical and contemporary works while working in his studio. Cellist Richard Narroway will perform a set inspired by the Australian landscape and the work of Boyd’s much-loved composers of the 1980s.
“The variation of this area with its great deep tones and high keys has an analogy with music […] In this landscape the tonal range—not tonal in the obvious sense of colour, but the actual fact of the horizon, which can vary from very high to low to infinite depending on your line of vision—makes it a greater challenge. It has a knife-edge clarity […] Wagner could easily have composed here.” Steven Tonkin, Curator (Arts Centre Melbourne)
Richard Narroway
Australian cellist Richard Narroway enjoys an international career as a performer, recording artist, and teacher. He has given performances across Australia, North America, Europe, and Asia, in prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Koerner Hall, and the Sydney Opera House.
“…deftly moving his bow as a master artist might move his brush, full of oil paint across a canvas.” Audiophile Audition
“An immensely gifted young musician soon fit to keep company with some of the greats that preceded him.” Rafael’s Music Notes
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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.
