WATCH: Woonona artist Diana Wood Conroy talks about her tapestry the Glory of the Lord.
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00:00 I'm Diana Wood Conroy. I'm an artist, a scholar and a teacher, a former teacher at the University of Wollongong.
00:09 And the Wollongong Art Gallery is putting on a retrospective of 50 years of my work in tapestries, drawings and watercolours.
00:21 This tapestry, it's 9 foot square or 2.6 metres square, was commissioned for the Menzies College at Macquarie University in Sydney in 1973
00:38 when the building was first put up by its architects, Noel Bell and Riggi Smith.
00:44 It was hung in the dining room there and represents the glory of the Lord, texts from Ezekiel.
00:53 And it hung there until about 2005 when it was wrapped up tightly and put in a storeroom and completely forgotten about
01:04 until my husband Paul Sharrad started asking questions.
01:08 And fortunately the current Master of the College, Reverend Peter Davies, interviewed a maintenance officer who had recently retired
01:21 and he said, "Oh yes, that old tapestry is wrapped up in the store behind the kitchen."
01:26 So we were delighted and they were delighted to find it again.
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