UOW graduate's exhibition featured in Ireland's Day of Reflection

Jul 11, 2007

Creative Arts graduate, Dr Lycia Trouton, has recently returned from Northern Ireland where her 'Linen Memorial' exhibition was one of the focal points on a Day of Reflection to pay tribute to the thousands who lost their lives over the 30 years of sectarian violence in Ireland.

At Corrymeela Centre in Ballycastle, the Linen Memorial exhibition includes the names of victims which are embroidered on to hundreds of linen handkerchiefs.

The travelling Irish memorial has appeared at UOW before it went on tour around Australia and overseas. Lycia Trouton is a Canadian/Irishwoman visual artist and sculptor.

She has printed the names of the 3,658 Irish killed between 1966-2000 on to linen handkerchiefs, as linen is emblematic of the North of Ireland due to the history of this industry there.

Lycia also had a show in Taiwan with a colleague from Northern Ireland on the subject of migration (see accompanying image). While Lycia was not able to personally attend this exhibition her colleague Brian Kennedy from Belfast presented two lectures.

The exhibition was curated and hosted by another UOW graduate, Dr Chin Ming Lee. He is Director of the Penghu University Arts Centre, Penghu, Taiwan, where the exhibition was hosted.

The materials in Lycia's show in Taiwan were performance/photo-media. Her photos were a collaboration with Illawarra artist Kalev Mäeväli.