Lycia Trouton
Lycia Danielle Trouton is a Canadian-Australian-Irish artist. Early life. Lycia Danielle Trouton was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. Trouton went to pre-college at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Otis College of Art and Design. She studied at Carnegie Mellon and with tapestry weaver Dr Diana Wood Conroy. 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, 2001–5. She teaches, exhibits and curates around the world and currently resides in B.C., Canada or Belfast. Career. After beginning her career as an Earth or Land artist, she became a Public Artist with commissions in Seattle, Washington. 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. Tapestry. In 1999, after a visit to Northern Ireland, Trouton received a grant from Canada Council of the  Arts to work on textile memorial to those killed in The Troubles of Northern Ireland called the Linen Memorial. It 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).