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No profits have been made from this project:

Any artist's fees or grants to date have gone directly back into the embroidery, the exhibitions or website maintenance.

Intention:

My memorial was conceived as a way in which art may contribute to healing the trauma of The Troubles.

Embroidery Coordinator Contact & Artist Contact

Lycia Trouton, creator.

ABOUT:
The artist was born in Belfast during The Troubles.

Her maternal grandparents lived in North Belfast from post-war to 1980s. Her parents also lived in North Belfast until 1970 immigration to Canada, where the artist grew up. Subsequently, the artist lived in the USA and Australia; currently, she lives in Northern Ireland part of the year.

BIOGRAPHY of SCULPTOR, Lycia Trouton:

Lecturer, Artist, Art-Critic since 2006
DCA. U of Wollongong, Australia, 2005
10 years as a working site-sculptor and educator (1991 - 2001).
MFA. Cranbrook Academy Michigan USA, 1991
BFA (Hons). Carnegie Mellon, PA, USA, 1988

The Linen Memorial was created with funding from the Canada Council of the Arts, February 2001.

Further funding and support from:

Corrymeela Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, 2007 and 2008.

Canadian High Commission, Canberra ACT Australia. 2004

Research Unit for Art, Performance and Text, Visual Art and English depts. University of Wollongong, Australia. 2001 - 5.

Family and Friends.

CONTACT DETAILS for Artist Lycia Trouton:

EMAIL lyciatrouton@utas.edu.au

1) Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland

2) Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

3) Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Maureen Trouton - Embroidery Coordinator
Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Thank you to all the needlework volunteers, for their careful sewing of the names in chain stitch, which is complete, March 2010.

Lycia Trouton, the artist, is now sewing one spot of hair per handkerchief. Thank you to Arpad Tapp, Tasmanian ceramicist, for the donation of all of his long hair in a recent cut.

© 2001-2010 Lycia Trouton   Updated 5th March 2010