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Mary Nolan, Family picnic under the sweet chestnut trees, Anduze, c1973.

How five generations of Boyd women shaped an artistic dynasty

The creative lives of five generations of Boyd women are finally revealed in a major new exhibition featuring more than 300 works, including intimate, never-before-seen family photographs by Mary Nolan.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

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Giving to a good cause is joyous, says David Gonski.

David Gonski on the art of parting the rich from their money for a good cause

University of NSW chancellor and philanthropist-whisperer David Gonski says it shouldn’t matter why a rich person gives, only that they do.

  • Linda Morris
Some of Arthur Boyd’s landscapes from 1984 are on show at Bundanon for the first time.

How a Melbourne Cup windfall brought the great Arthur Boyd into my life

As his landscapes return to the Bundanon Art Museum, I reconnected with a print that I’ve taken with me around the world.

  • Julie Power
Nova Paul’s video work Nga Purakau No Nga Rakau – Stories from the Trees is part of The Polyphonic Sea at Bundanon.

A dozen Kiwi artists descended on Arthur Boyd’s property. Here’s what came next

The artist left the country his 1000-hectare property Bundanon in 1993. Now it’s the site of a gallery, where much of the work responds directly to the site.

  • Jo Higgins
Tim Ross is looking beyond the suburbs in part two of his series Designing a Legacy.

He helped us fall in love with the burbs, now Tim Ross has a new dream

It’s not all postmodern, mid-century gems in Designing a Legacy; instead the architecture buff has the bush, social housing and urban design in mind.

  • Bridget McManus
Artist Kate Scardifield, one of the artists featured in Siteworks, an exhibition at Bundanon responding to climate change issues. Her work uses algae, seaweed and oyster shells. 23rd November 2022 Photo: Janie Barrett
Rebecca Mayo with Aunty Deidre Martin and Jacob Morris, The Plant Sensibilia Machine, 2022-23 stainless steel, PVC pipe, bicycle chain, plant material collected at Bundanon, water, hemp, printed metals salts, installation view, Siteworks 2022: From a deep valley.
CREDIT: Zan Wimberley
Opening weekend of Siteworks festival at Bundanon, Arthur Boyd’s property on the Shoalhaven River. Nov 2022
Gadhungal Murring performing Banna Budjaang at the opening of Siteworks 2022: Drom a deep valley, Sat 26 November 2022.
CREDIT: Zan Wimberley
Opening weekend of Siteworks festival at Bundanon, Arthur Boyd’s property on the Shoalhaven River. Nov 2022
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In Arthur Boyd’s property, artists and scientists tackle climate change and extreme weather

Work by more than 25 artists and 15 scientists drawing on climate research and First Nations knowledge form part of a conversation around the environment, sustainability, and planetary care.

  • Andrew Taylor
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Friends and Strangers follows Ray (Fergus Wilson) and his misadventures through Sydney.

Misadventures of a bumbling man-child make for one special Australian movie

James Vaughan’s witty and winning film Friends and Strangers delivers a stream of small surprises.

  • Jake Wilson
Inside the new art museum

Arthur Boyd’s South Coast property opens with new underground museum

The museum is part of a $34 million transformation of the famous property.

  • Linda Morris
John and Sunday Reed

It makes art sexy and accessible: Heide turns 40

John and Sunday Reed championed emerging artists and their legacy lives on, as Heide celebrates its 40th anniversary.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
A flood-bridge structure
enabled Bundanon’s new
building to create space in
thin air: “We had to find
an idea that solved a lot
of issues with one gesture,”
says lead architect Kerstin Thompson.

‘What have I done?’: Arthur Boyd’s dream forms in thin air

He was one of Australia’s most celebrated artists, and he wanted Bundanon, his properties on the banks of the Shoalhaven River, to be a place where all sorts of people could gather. Nearly 30 years on, a striking new building puts that dream on a firmer path to reality.

  • Amanda Hooton