The Hamilton Art Gallery will host a collection of ceramics, drawings and etchings by Arthur Boyd and his father Merric Boyd from September 10 to October 31.

Titled White Gums and Ramoxes, the exhibition comes to the region from the Bundanon Trust Collection in New South Wales and comprises 114 works. Merric Boyd was one of Australia's first commercially successful artisan potters, maintaining a studio in the backyard of his family's Murrumbeena home.

Son Arthur ran a successful pottery studio from the premises between 1945 and 1955 with support from artists such as John Perceval.

Curated by Grace Cochrane, the exhibition focuses on how Arthur responded to his father's work and includes striking pieces by Merric that examine national motifs such as eucalypts.

Hamilton Art Gallery director Daniel McOwan said the Boyd family's creativity spanned many forms. "This exhibition shows their genius for expression in two-dimensional work, their famous ceramics and how the two media allowed similar themes and ideas to be explored," he said.

Ramoxes were a mythical invention of Arthur Boyd's ? a cross between a ram and an ox ? which often symbolised a voyeuristic presence.

At 10am on September 10, Ms Cochrane will present a free floor talk on the exhibition and the lives of its creators.