Resources

Resources

Information about The Linen Memorial:

• CDEN : Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network,
  Social Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast

Information about The Troubles:

• Conflict Archive on the Internet: Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland (1968 to the Present)

Memorials and organisations fostering a fragile parity of esteem for difference

• Day of 'Private' Reflection
• Healing Through Remembering
• Support and Reconciliation : Northern Ireland Memorial Fund
• The Corrymeela Community

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
• 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:

• Doris Salcedo
• Christian Boltanski (Jewish Holocaust)
• Hussein Chalayan {Fashion Design}
• Mona Hatoum
• Nadia Myre, Canada. Beaded Reconciliation Work
• William Kentridge
  {Materialism in Sculpture/Animated film}
• Yinka Shonibare

Related articles and books:

• Embroidering the Nation, Australia
  by Dorothy Jones, PhD
• Irish Craft History and Theory, nineteenth century to present:
  Joseph McBrinn, PhD

Archives:

• Troubles Archive
  Arts Council of Northern Ireland
• Queens University Anthropology, Belfast. Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network : Stories of Grief/Love

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:

• afactor.net
• wingsofmusic.net
• 'Peace Songs Tapestries'

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