Resources
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Resources
Information about The Linen Memorial:
Information about The Troubles:
Memorials and organisations fostering a fragile parity of esteem for difference
Public Art & Craft:
Information about artistic precedents of large-scale public community needlework projects for peace, commemoration & non-violence, and for women's contributions to public life:
- CAIN: Quilts Exhibition 2008: Follow-Up Events - The Art of Survival
- CAIN: Victims: Human Face: Photographs of the Victims of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
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Saidie Patterson, Belfast Peace Activist 1906 - 1985) known for her work with mixed communities of working-class women, the first female Linen & Textiles Trade Unionist.
- Wartime quilts
- Ribbon-Around-the-Pentagon organised by Justine Merritt
- The Crystal Quilt directed by Suzanne Lacy
- The Dinner Party by sculptor Judy Chicago, USA, 1970s.
- Goldsmiths Prof. Janet Jefferies and the 'textile arts' fence at Greenham Common, 1984
- Roses-from-the-Heart, the Australian bonnet project by conceptual artist Christina Henri commemorating the passage of women convicts, 2007.
- The Names Quilt
- The Red Ribbon Project
- Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
- Women in Black
- Desconocida: Unknown
1,537 nametags, 22 workshops globally, women murdered in Juarez, Mexico
- Exhibition at Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, 2006
Curator: Prof. Lesley Millar, University of the Creative Arts, Epsom, 2009
60 page catalogue (5 pounds sterling)
- Reviewer for embroiderersguild.com/stitch May/June 2009
Dr. Jessica Hemmings, Edinburgh, UK
Installation Art about Acts of Memory/Spaces of Forgetting and/or the Art of Textiles/Migration:
Related articles and books:
Archives:
Donation:
- City of Belfast Youth Orchestra (CBYO)
The Linen Memorial officially endorses the following charity: The Belfast Youth Orchestra,
in memory of Stephen Parker, teenager killed (wrong place, wrong time) 1972. Please contact 'CBYO' about your donation.
Associated websites:
Website Credits:
- Web design: Stan Gielewski 2002
- Redesigned by Stan and Lycia, under the name Cre8rix, 2006
- Lycia with webmaster Stephen Perrett 2004 - 7
- Lycia with afactor.net
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