The latest artwork loan under the Sharing the National Collection initiative shows that home is where the heart is.

A watercolour painting of a house, pine trees and two horses.
Arthur Boyd, House, pine trees and horses, 1940, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, the Arthur Boyd gift, 1975, Reproduced with permission of Bundanon Trust.

Eleven works by one of Australia’s most beloved artists, Arthur Boyd, will be loaned to Bundanon Art Museum, on the New South Wales south coast.

Bundanon is an Australian cultural institution that supports the arts through its residency, education, exhibition and performance programs.

In 1979 Arthur and Yvonne Boyd purchased the Bundanon Homestead and created Boyd’s studio on the property. The Boyds generously gifted Bundanon to the nation in 1993 for artists and visitors to enjoy. The studio has been preserved ever since for visitors to explore the workspace of one of Australia’s favourite landscape painters.

These loaned works include portraits of Doris and Mary Boyd which are now on display at a new Bundanon exhibition called The Hidden Line: Art of the Boyd Women. The remaining works will go on display in early 2026 and were created in the 1930s when Boyd lived with his grandfather at Port Phillip Bay and assist in completing the chronology of Bundanon’s collection.

Sharing the National Collection is providing $11.8 million over 4 years to fund the costs of transporting, installing and insuring works from the national art collection so they can be seen right across the country.

Regional and suburban galleries can register their interest in the loan program on the National Gallery of Australia's website.

Sharing the National Collection is part of Revive, Australia’s national cultural policy.