Lycia Trouton

Lycia Trouton
Trouton in 2016
Born1967 (age 57–58)
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
NationalityCanadian
Other namesLycia Danielle Trouton
EducationCarnegie Mellon University,
Cranbrook Academy of Art,
University of Wollongong
OccupationVisual artist
Notable work"Linen Memorial"
MovementLand art

Lycia Danielle Trouton (born 1967)[1] is a United Kingdom-born Canadian visual artist, teacher, and curator. She is known for her "Linen Memorial", a tribute to those that died in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.[2][3] Trouton resides in British Columbia, Canada, and Belfast, Ireland.

Early life and education

Lycia Danielle Trouton was born in 1967,[1] in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom,[4] and raised in Vancouver, Canada. Trouton went to a pre-college program at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Otis College of Art and Design.[citation needed]

Trouton received a BFA degree in sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A in 1988; a MFA degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.A in 1991.[citation needed] She moved to Australia in 2001, and completed her doctorate in 2005 at the age of 38, at the University of Wollongong in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Her thesis was titled, "An Intimate Monument: Re-Narrating 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland" (2004).[5]

Career

After beginning her career working in land art, she pivoted to work in public art with commissions in Seattle, Washington.[citation needed] Trouton has held visiting lectureships or done presentations at several higher education institutions, including Malmo Art School of Lund University, FLACSO Ecuador, University of Tasmania and Sheridan College, Toronto.[citation needed]

Linen Memorial

In 1999, after a visit to Northern Ireland, Trouton received a grant from Canada Council of the Arts to work on textile memorial to those killed in The Troubles of Northern Ireland called the "Linen Memorial".[2] It is a list of almost 4,000 of those who died in 'The Troubles in Northern Ireland from 1966 to 2009 in a chronological names list, embroidered on Irish Linen handkerchiefs.[2][3]

The Memorial was publicly unveiled in Ireland at a peace and reconciliation centre on the first Private Day of Reflection, 2007, on the sectarian violence.[citation needed] It formed the basis of Trouton's graduate thesis.[citation needed] It was also shown in Canberra's Design Centre, CraftACT, Australia, 2004, and in 2011 in Portneuf, Quebec, Canada as a part of Quebec's International Biennale of Flax and Linen (BILP).[citation needed]

Writings by or about the artist

  • Heffer, Cecilia; Dorst, Kees; Shepherd, Rosemary; Williamson, Liz; Carnie, Bruce Wood; Trouton, Lycia (2007). Lace: Contemporary Textiles: Exhibition + New Works: Ceceila Heffer 2005–2007 (catalogue). University of Technology, Sydney, Ultimo, N.S.W. ISBN 9780977532551.
  • FibreArts 2007, VOL 34; NUMB 3, pages 44–45[6]
  • The Linen Memorial: State and Sectarian Violence in Northern Ireland, in Pain and Death: Politics, Aesthetics, Legalities, a Journal of Research School of Humanities, ed. Carolyn Strange. Vol. XIV, No. 2, 2007. ANU Press and e-Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia.[7]
  • TIMEFRAMES 52 page color catalogue essays by Donald Kuspit, Beverly Leviner, Robert Metzger, Christopher Youngs works by Stan Douglas, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Hamish Fulton, Rebecca Horn, Mark Klett, Eadweard Muybridge, Michael Snow, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Susan Crowder, Lycia Trouton February 14 – April 11, 1997 FG97-A1249-20[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Lycia Danielle Trouton". Hangzhou Triennial Of Fiber Art. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Hailes, Anne (15 June 2015). "Troubles linen memorial makes its way to Stormont". The Irish News. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  3. ^ a b Doyle, Martin. "Dirty Linen: a personal history of Northern Ireland". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  4. ^ "[ISEA2009] Artists Talk: Lycia Trouton & Stephen Perrett – The (Irish) Linen Memorial Soundscape: a Gathering of Names". ISEA Symposium Archives. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  5. ^ Trouton, LD (2023). An intimate monument: (re)narrating the troubles in Northern Ireland. University of Tasmania (Thesis). doi:10.25959/23225126.v1.
  6. ^ FibreArts 2007, VOL 34; NUMB 3, pages 44-45 Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ The Linen Memorial: State and Sectarian Violence in Northern Ireland
  8. ^ "Freedman Gallery Publication List". Archived from the original on 21 May 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2013.

General

  • Jessica Hemmings (2007). "Review". Fiber Arts Review USA. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  • Carolyn Strange (ed.). "Politics, Aesthetics, Legalities". Pain and Death. XIV. No. 2. The Australian National University, Research School of Humanities.
  • Meredith Hinchliff (11 February 2004). "Review: The Fabric of 30 years of The Troubles". The Canberra Times. p. 27.