Explore Heavy Metal in this arts and science collaboration that lets you play a Boyd painting by getting under the surface of the paint.
Elements and minerals lay buried in the landscape tracing diagrams of human activity. Specks of alluvial Gold washed down to the flood plain from worked-out mountain mine shafts; the mineral auras that reveal the long-vanished outlines of farm-buildings and the tell-tale chemical fallout from workplaces.
Boyd painted this (mineralised) landscape with colours which were themselves formulated from earthy compounds and exotic metals, milled to a fine paste in linseed oil and turpentine.
“Heavy Metal” invites us to interact with one of Arthur Boyd’s paintings in his old studio at the Bundanon Homestead to discover a hidden world of elements and minerals in an experience that is simultaneously chemical, visual and musical.
Opening: Saturday 24 September at Siteworks 2016
Acknowledgements:
Heavy Metal is a collaborative work by Dr Nigel Helyer; Dr MarK Taylor and Dr Jon Drummond produced for Siteworks 2016 as part of the “When Science Meets Art” ARC Art and Science research project. Many thanks to Richard Montgomery and Marek Rouillon.
