BUNDANON HOMESTEAD
SHOALHAVEN, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Image number 896 (top) 897 (below)
Dr Kenneth Mackenzie came from Scotland in 1838 and built a timber house above the Shoalhaven River south of Sydney. In 1866 the family moved into their new two-storey sandstone homestead ‘Bundanon’, in the tradition of the great “squatter houses” of Australia on 2,900 hectares along the river. Some generations later, following the drowning death of Kenneth Mackenzie in the river, the family departed the property in 1926. Bundanon was then leased to tenant farmers for the next 40 years.
The renowned Australian artist, Arthur Boyd and his wife, Yvonne, puchased Bundanon in 1979, having already acquired significant adjoining properties. Boyd, already the product of a dynasty of Australian artists, had the inherited wealth and establishment relationships to turn Bundanon into a national treasure, celebrating connections with all artists of his generation, the property’s legacy and its indigenous linkages. In 1993, Prime Minister Paul Keating announced the Australian Government’s acceptance of Boyd's offer to establish the Bundanon Trust. In 1995 Arthur Boyd became Australian of the Year. In 1998 Bundanon’s artist in residence program was implemented in a building on the property designed by Boyd’s friend and legendary architect, Glen Murcott.
Arthur Boyd died on 24 April 1999, aged 78.The house now houses 4000 works by Boyd, his family and his brother-in-law, Sydney Nolan.
TECHNICAL NOTES
Image 896 (top)
The image was taken with a tripod-mounted Phase One 645 Camera at ISO 35. Exposure of 1/6th of a second and an aperture of f16. Schneider Kreuznach 28mm wide angle lens with leaf shutter. The image was captured on a Phase One IQ180 80 megapixel digital back.
Image 897 (below)
The image was taken with a tripod-mounted Phase One 645 Camera at ISO 35. Exposure of 1/20th of a second and an aperture of f14. Schneider Kreuznach 80mm lens with leaf shutter. The image was captured on a Phase One IQ180 80 megapixel digital back.