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Underground art

IF YOU STAND still, alone, inside the gallery of the Bundanon Art Museum you’ll experience a special kind of silence. There’s no tooting of car horns or raindrops on rooftops, not even white noise. That’s because this building is embedded in the side of a hill and perfectly soundproofed by great sods of earth.

The gallery houses some of the nation’s most precious artworks, produced by Arthur Boyd during

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