Lycia Trouton

Lycia Danielle Trouton (born March 8, 1967) is a Canadian-Australian-Irish artist. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and raised 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.

Lycia Trouton
Trouton in 2016, Hangzhou China.
BornMarch 8, 1967 (1967-03-08) (age 53)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Other namesLycia Danielle Trouton
OccupationCanadian Australian Irish artist

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).

Early life

Dr Lycia Danielle Trouton is a sculptor (who also had youthful aspirations as an actress) and the daughter of an architect and an artist who became a special education teacher. She has an older sister Dr Konia Trouton MD and grew up in the tree-lined Dunbar-Southlands neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Lycia's father reportedly named his daughters after the most beautiful cities in the ancient Asia Minor worlds, Lycia in Anatolia . She attended Crofton House School but, while becoming a model student and prefect, privately rebelled as a creative student. At the age of 13, Lycia studied painting, drawing and ceramics at one of the first classes for teenagers at the emerging Arts Umbrella on Granville Island and Speech Arts/Drama with the mother of CBC's David Wisdom, (Gaye was a Canadian former-British WWII-era repertory theatre actress, Gay (Gladys) Scrivener Wisdom).[1] Trouton later went onto pre-college at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and Otis-Parsons, early 1980s, one of the major art institutions in Los Angeles, California, USA. She also studied at Carnegie Mellon—where Andy Warhol went to school—and under Sculptor Michael Hall, mid-west USA and with Tapestry Weaver Dr Diana Wood Conroy , Australia (2000s) – both published authors and cultural theorists.

Education

Trouton obtained her BFA in sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A in 1988 and then her MFA, at Cranbrook Educational Community School of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.A in 1991. She moved to Australia in 2001 and completed her doctorate in 2005 at the age of 38 at the University of Wollongong,[2] 2001–5. She teaches, exhibits and curates around the world and currently resides in B.C., Canada or Belfast.

Writing by or about the artist
  • Lace: contemporary textiles : exhibition + new works[3]
  • FibreArts 2007, VOL 34; NUMB 3, pages 44–45[4]
  • 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.[5]
  • 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[6]

References
  1. See page 6 of The history of the Vancouver Little Theatre Association by Speech Arts teacher and Vancouver actress, Carol Nesbitt, UBC Master’s Thesis,1992.
  2. Thesis: An intimate monument: re-narrating 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland
  3. Lace: contemporary textiles : exhibition + new works (Australian National Library Entry)
  4. FibreArts 2007, VOL 34; NUMB 3, pages 44-45 Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
  5. The Linen Memorial: State and Sectarian Violence in Northern Ireland
  6. "Freedman Gallery Publication List". Archived from the original on 2012-05-21. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
General
  • Jessica Hemmings (2007). "Review". Fiber Arts Review USA. Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  • Carolyn Strange (ed.). "Politics, Aesthetics, Legalities". Pain and Death. The Australian National University, Research School of Humanities. XIV. No. 2.
  • Meredith Hinchliff (February 11, 2004). "Review: The Fabric of 30 years of The Troubles". The Canberra Times. p. 27.


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