Gallery > Shadows and Fragments Red Point Gallery Port Kembla
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Fragment Artist’s Book. 26 cm x 22 cm x 1.76 cm.
Liz Jeneid and Diana Wood Conroy: Shadows and Fragments, Red Point Gallery Port Kembla July 11-28, 2018. Diana's work described below.
View of Red Point Gallery with Fragment, an artist’s book of archaeological drawings of fresco fragments from the ancient theatre in Paphos, Cyprus, with text from Euripides The Bacchae in English and Greek.
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Blossoms everywhere and All the earth will dance
Fragments from Ariadne’s garden. 30 cm x 30 cm each plywood panel. Tapestry of variable sizes, in wool, linen and silk.
Nine fragments on gesso panels of woven tapestry based on actual painted fresco fragments as documented in the Artist Book Fragment.
The titles of the works come from the fifth century BC Greek tragedian Euripides’s play, The Bacchae which describes the transformative effects of Dionysos, who was at the source of ancient theatre. Ariadne was his consort.
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Among the Bones, music (From George Seferis)
As above, woven tapestry fragment on panel 30 x 30 cm
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His garment’s purple folds
Woven tapestry fragment in wool linen silk and metallic thread (15 cm x 15 cm)
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All the earth will dance
Woven tapestry fragment in wool silk and metallic thread on gesso panel 30 x 30 cm based on actual painted fresco fragments.
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.Ribbons for a Maenad
Woven tapestry fragment in wool linen silk and metallic thread on gessopanel 30 cm x 30 cm
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View of Red Point Gallery Port Kembla with works
Documenting Soli: Earth Archive 11, 82 cm x 180cm framed, 2017
Drawing on gesso on paper. Plant dyes, earth and ash pigments from the Paphos theatre excavation, Cyprus. This drawing formed the basis for the tapestry Soli. The translation into tapestry changes the character of the work.
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Shaken into ruin and Ribbons for a maenad
Woven tapestry fragments on gesso panels in wool linen silk and metallic thread 30 cm x 30 cm based on actual painted fresco fragments
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Documenting Soli: Earth Archive 11, 2017.
Drawing on gesso on paper. Plant dyes, earth and ash pigments from the Paphos theatre excavation, Cyprus. This drawing formed the basis for the tapestry Soli. The translation into tapestry changes the character of the work. 82 cm x 180cm framed.
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Soli: Earth Archive 11 62cm x160 cm, 2017.
Woven tapestry with wool, alpaca cotton, silk, linen and metallic yarn, some dyed with pomegranate, some hand-spun. Drawn from fragments of a mosaic on a basilica floor in Soli, an ancient city of Cyprus. The text is from Marilynne Robinson’s 2014 novel Lila, “What will I do without her, what will I do?” Exhibited in Weaving Europe: Weaving as Meditation, curated by Efi Kyprianidou, Pafos European Capital of Culture 2017.
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Among the Bones, music, and A flower for Aphrodite
Woven tapestry fragments in perspex frames 25 cm x 25 cm in wool and linen thread. Exhibited in Travellers from Australia, Pafos European Capital of Culture, Cyprus 2017 and in Aphrodite's Island, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, 2012.
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This ivy spear a thyrsus in my hand
Woven tapestry fragment in wool, silk, linen and metallic thread on gesso panel 30 cm x 30 cm.
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Fragment Artist’s Book. 26 cm x 22 cm x 1.76 cm.
An artist’s book of archaeological drawings of fresco fragments from the ancient theatre in Paphos, Cyprus, with text from Euripides The Bacchae in English and Greek.
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