Learning to paint in Long Bay: Gordon Syron

Renowned Indigenous artist and Biripi/Worimi man, Gordon Syron, describes how he turned an interest in art into a practice when he was at Long Bay Jail in the 1960s.

Keywords: Law; education; working; arts

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