Diana Wood Conroy, Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Wollongong is an artist, author and archaeologist with a long connection to the Chau Chak Wing Museum collections - as an undergraduate student in the 1960s she assisted in the Nicholson Museum stocktake and redisplay of the collection. Since the 1970s Diana has worked primarily in tapestry and has collaborated with Tiwi artists. Her practice explores relationships between classical, Aboriginal and personal worlds in tapestry and drawing, and her works are held in national and international collections.  

 

A fragment of a Pompeian wall painting painted c. 60-79 AD is the starting point to discuss Diana's own archaeological work in Paphos, Cyprus, as well as exploring the concept of the artist in both ancient and modern cultures. In Paphos, Diana has studied and worked to reconstruct Roman wall paintings exposed by Australian archaeologists over the past two decades.

Object record: NM80.49

Host: Dr Craig Barker, Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museumand Director, Paphos Theatre Archaeological Excavations. Follow @DrCraig_B on Twitter and Instagram.

Guest: Diana Wood Conroy, Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Wollongong, artist, author and archaeologist.

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