Diana Wood Conroy has a B.A. (Hons) in Archaeology from the University of Sydney, subsequently studying at the British School of Archaeology in Athens and working in museums and excavations in Greece and Italy. She has a Doctor of Creative Arts degree from the University of Wollongong. In the 1970s she became a tapestry weaver, although continuing her research interests in archaeology and anthropology. Her involvement with Aboriginal communities began in 1974 when she was co-ordinator of Tiwi Designs, Bathurst Island, Northern Territory. As a fresco archaeologist and artist-in-residence, she has participated in the University of Sydney excavation of a Greek theatre in Paphos Cyprus, since 1996, with staff and students from the University of Wollongong. Her exhibition work explores relationships between classical, Aboriginal and personal worlds in tapestry and drawing, and has been selected for survey shows touring nationally in Australia, as well as in Poland, the U.S and South America. An archaeological approach informs her critical writing on textiles and tapestry in the artworld in journals and books in Australia and overseas.
Exhibition catalogues
Breathing Space (with Liz Jeneid and Stephen Ingham), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2010)
‘Breathing space’ is about marking time through breath. When breath stops, time stops for each...
"Ditto" - Images in Print (with M. Adil, Brogan Bunt, Gregor Cullen, Agnieszka Golda, Richard Hook, Gary Jones, Derek Kreckler, F. Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis, J. Law, Jacky Redgate, and Julius Van Den Berg), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2009)
Fabrics of Change : Trading Identities (with Emma Rutherford), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2004)
Fabrics of Change : Trading Identities explores textiles and their intrinsic relationship to texts of...
Common Ground - Exploring the Royal National Park - the dramatic common ground shared by southern Sydney and the Illawarra (with Glen Barkley, Tom Sear, Jelle van den Berg, Sue Blanchfield, Ian Gentle, Gardon Hockey, Liz Jeneid, Idris Murphy, Jacky Redgate, and John Wolseley), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2002)
The University of Wollongong is renowned as a centre of excellence in research and education....
Kay Lawrence : land, self, loss, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2002)
A Gorgon in the mid-threads of a shawl, fringed with serpents is the description of...
Books and Reports
Wall Paintings in the Icarus Street Tomb, Pafos, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2006)
Wall painting extended the impressive effect of the vaulted architecture of the Icarus Str. tomb,...
Roman wall paintings in the Pafos theatre, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2004)
The fragments of painted plaster were first found in the 1996 and 1997 Pafos Theatre...
Journeys Between Nature and Culture (with Lesley M. Head and Jennifer Lamb), Faculty of Science - Papers (2000)
Artworks
Eustorgis 1., "ditto" - images in print exhibition (2007)
Eustorgis 1. - Two colour lithograph printed by Tom Goulder, Duck Print Fine Art Editions,...
Thesis
An archaeology of tapestry: contexts, signs and histories of contemporary practice, University of Wollongong Thesis Collection (1995)
The relevance of archaeological theory to contemporary craft, both through the discipline of academic investigation,...
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Fabrics of Change: Trading Identities Exhibition, Faculty of Creative Arts Gallery, University of Wollongong and Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide (2004)
Hommage to the infinite: Deborah Walker, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2004)
A catalogue essay of Deborah Walker, positioning her paintings in the wider art context; 'Hommage...
The Fabric of the Ancient Theatre: Excavation Journals from Cyprus And The Eastern Mediterranean, Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2004)
THE FABRIC OF THE ANCIENT THEATRE: EXCAVATION JOURNALS FROM CYPRUS AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN MOUFFLON...