Bundanon art museum: Arthur Boyd’s estate reimagined in architectural feat

Few Australians would realise just how close the recent bushfires came to destroying one of the most valuable art collections in the country.

During Australia’s devastating black summer of 2020, the flames came within 1km of Arthur Boyd’s historic place of residence, threatening a collection of the artist’s works along with those of Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Charles Blackman and others – including many created by the prodigious Boyd clan – estimated to be worth in excess of $40m.

Some 3,800 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics and archival photographs, were evacuated from Bundanon – in New South Wales’ Shoalhaven region – between