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Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
About Lycia Trouton
- Lycia Trouton is a Canadian-Australian-Irish artist (born March 8, 1967) in Belfast and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Following an early career as an Earth or Land artist, she became a Public Artist with commissions in Seattle, Washington, USA and then rose to international artistic significance (curated by Sarat Maharaj) with her post-conflict, post-colonial artist-as-witness / peace project: The Linen Memorial.
- 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. In 1999, after a visit to Northern Ireland, Trouton received a $5,000 research grant from Canada Council of the Arts to begin researching a textile memorial to those killed in The Troubles of Northern Ireland.
- After several renamings, the piece would be called the Linen Memorial.
- The Memorial 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.
- 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.
- It formed the basis of Trouton's graduate thesis.
- 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).
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