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Bridge to a sensory realm expands Arthur Boyd’s gift to the nation

Bridge to a sensory realm expands Arthur Boyd’s gift to the nation

An architectural installation at Bundanon lets visitors steep themselves in the sensory world of one of Australia’s most revered artists.

Imagine for a moment living in a painting. Then envision yourself living in the landscape where this painting was conceived, footsteps away from where the artist lived. Next, picture yourself viewing this painting in a museum less than a hundred metres from your living quarters.

If your imagination has set you down in a cityscape – at MoMA in midtown Manhattan, say, the stomping ground of Jean-Michel Basquiat or Andy Warhol – delete that thought and take your imagination instead to a bucolic, quintessentially Australian bushland setting.

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