Curriculum Vitae

Visiting Artist and Art History and Theory Lecturer

Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia 2005 

INSTRUCTOR


Kwantlen University with British Columbia Institute of Technology (B.C.I.T) 1997 - 1999
Applied Design Department, Canada

VISITING or RESIDENT ARTIST 1993- 1998
large-scale projects up to six months duration: 

Pennsylvania State University, Berks campus, with Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.A.
University of British Columbia, Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, Maple Ridge, B.C.
Stanley Park, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, British Columbia, Canada
Cranbrook-Kingswood High School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.

EDUCATION

December 2005

DCA (50% thesis and 50% creative project) University of Wollongong , NSW, Australia 
Postcolonial text/textiles; material culture; anti-monumentation; context: Northern Ireland

MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.A 1991
Site-conscious sculpture
BFA (Hons) - Sculpture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A 1988
Sculpture with painting minor



GUEST LECTURES: 2000 - current

University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia 
Contemporary Institute of Fine Arts, COFA, Sydney, Australia 
University of Washington, Architectural Dept., Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Capilano College, Textiles, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

CONFEFRENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Pain, Violence, Death,' Australian National University, Cross Cultural Research Centre 2005

Irish History Conference with Australian War Memorial 2005

Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, 2004

University of Wollongong (postgraduate), NSW, Australia, 2003

Washington Unviersity (see Cheryl Hahn), 1999

PUBLISHED ARTICLES by Lycia Trouton 

Refereed academic journals or Conference proceedings
Art Criticism and Reviews
Community Content: Intercultural arts, community-based Public Art 
Editor
Assitant to Editors

Professional Affiliations

Board Member of Designers for Social Responsibility, Vancouver, BC, Canada
(President Ian Theaker, Ecological Civil Engineer)

Associate Member of Centre for Research in Image, performance and text (CRIPT) University of Wollongong, NSW


Related Professional Positions 

PUBLIC ART CONSULTANT


Seattle Arts Commission,Washington, USA 2001 - 2002

Design team consultant as a Public Artist with award-winning Nakano Associates Landscape Architects and Streeter and Associates Architects for Rainier Beach Public Library, South Seattle, Washington.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT and CONFERENCE ORGANISER
University of Wollongong, NSW 2001 - 2004
Fabric(ation)s of the Postcolonial, a cross-disciplinary Australian Research Council Large Discovery Grant, with the Faculties of Arts (Literature) and Creative Arts (Textiles/Tapestry).

Strategic Development and Communications Consultant, Melbourne, Victoria 
PAN Event Entertainment & Cultural Infusion - an organization representing over 150 Multicultural Artists and over 1,000 Fusion Acts and intermedia performance-events.

Adjudicator, Provincial Fine Arts Festivals, B.C, Canada 1993 - 1999
Visual Effects (FX) Sculptor, PMP Productions, Burnaby, B.C. 1997- 1999
Fine Arts Teacher ( K - 12) Greater Vancouver, B.C., Canada 1992 - 1998
Publicist/Lecture Tour Manager, Greater Lower Mainland, BC 1990s

OTHER EDUCATION

Postgraduate certificate in Business Management, Australia Candidate current

Multicultural Arts Professional Development (MAPD) program 2003-2004
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

LTCL Licentiate Teacher's Diploma in Speech Arts and Drama 1997
Trinity College London

TRADES TRAINING:

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, USA (Seattle branch)
Carpenter Apprentice (intermittent employment) 1994 - 2000