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University of Wollongong

2002

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

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Kay Lawrence : Land, Self, Loss, Diana Wood Conroy Jan 2002

Kay Lawrence : Land, Self, Loss, Diana Wood Conroy

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

A Gorgon in the mid-threads of a shawl, fringed with serpents is the description of a baby's shawl, the key motif of the story of the mythical Greek Kreusa. Raped by Apollo, the young princess hid their baby Ion in a cave at birth, wrapped in a covering woven with a Gorgon head she had made herself. His later recognition as a grown man, her son, by a distraught Kreusa depended on the identification of these figured cloths that she had woven as a girl. On this distinctive evidence which gave Ion his genealogical birthright hung the future of the …


Common Ground - Exploring The Royal National Park - The Dramatic Common Ground Shared By Southern Sydney And The Illawarra, Glenn P. Barkley, Tom Sear, Jelle Van Den Berg, Susan Blanchfield, Ian Gentle, Gardon Hockey, Liz Jeneid, Idris Murphy, Jacky Redgate, John Wolseley, Diana Wood Conroy Jan 2002

Common Ground - Exploring The Royal National Park - The Dramatic Common Ground Shared By Southern Sydney And The Illawarra, Glenn P. Barkley, Tom Sear, Jelle Van Den Berg, Susan Blanchfield, Ian Gentle, Gardon Hockey, Liz Jeneid, Idris Murphy, Jacky Redgate, John Wolseley, Diana Wood Conroy

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

The University of Wollongong is renowned as a centre of excellence in research and education. It also has an important public role in developing strategic partnerships within the cultural sphere and this exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts centre is an example of the type of initiative that reflects the diverse roles of a contemporary University. The agenda of 'Common Ground' is to explore the physical place that unites the communities of southern Sydney and Illawarra, the Royal Nalional Park. The University of Woliongong has for many years undertaken projects in the scientific realms that seek to bring a …