Installation Art about
Memory, Trauma & Migration
2000 - 2008

site-contextual, The Linen Memorial is a counter-monument to all those killed in the Northern Ireland sectarian conflict, 1960s to recent years

Almost 400 Irish linen handkerchiefs, approx 1 sq. ft each, printed and embroidered, 2001 -7.
Thank you to contributors: volunteer embroiderers. Each name takes an hour to hand embroider.

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PAST/FUTURE: Handkerchiefs of Hope

Photo-Media landscape series of North Belfast residents with handkerchiefs (linen & cut/folded paper)
Artwork and images are related to The Linen Memorial

Photograph included with permission from Thomas and James Allen.

HOME SWEET HOME

Collaborative video work with Brian Kennedy, 2006
Exhibited in Taiwan, February 2007.

Brian Kennedy is a Northern Ireland Installation-Performance Artist and CIRCA contributing Writer.
Home Sweet Home was shown as a looped projection for gallery installation

Flash Video : 3 mins : 6.6 MB

EXCAVATION OF BEING AT REST: MAKE DO AND MEND

Video documentation.
Various materials including plastic bodybag and men's blazer, MDF board, linen string, casting wax, oil, galvanised steel tray

'Artspace' Sydney, The Gunnery Residency 2004-5
Video-Editor: J. Zutt

Flash Video : 1min 30secs : 3.04 MB

MAKE DO AND MEND

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THE DRAGON'S TAIL

126 ft (length) X 11ft (height) tapering to 3ft (height) 1995 - 97 X 4ft to 2ft (in width)

Timeframes - 52 page color catalogue

Rammed Earth enhanced with iron oxide; timbers fallen at construction site This sculpture addresses the changes brought to the Pennsylvania State University college campus in Berks country, PA, by the newly constructed freeway and sound barrier wall adjacent to campus. The "tail" symbolizes the change/chaos/re-creation of a dragon's energy…traveling down the slope and acting as a continuation and yet, diversion, of the original concrete sound barrier. The sculpture was sited for two years, during which time it disintegrated gradually back into the earth. I wanted the piece to reflect the spirit of the historic arboretum, situated directly opposite, on another hill on the other side of the campus.

TERRA FLUX

Collaboration with David Scott-Risner
8 X 8 X 8 ft cube Horsehead International Sculpture Exhibition, 1998

Location: Empty toxic waste storage facility at abandoned Sandpoint Naval base, Seattle, Washington, USA

This cube was made with compressed soil, the interior of which is a hollow column (built from marine-grade plywood) filled with water which was released into the soil cube through a series of weep holes and sprayers. Seeds imbedded in the soil, both wild and inserted, grew over a four month period, thus, changing the earth cube as an intended part of the sculpture. The entire concrete basin was 'washed' with a spray from the PVC piping along its length - set to a timer, every hour. A pump funneled the water into the column itself. The sound of the water, the birds and insects which gathered, including a host of dragonfly larvae, all became a part of this living sculpture.

THE TURNLY COMPETITION, AN ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT:

Established February 10th 2007. an Art-Language concept.

A reinstigation of The 19th Century Cushendall Trust 'Essay' Prize
proposed by Francis Turnly (1766 – 1845) the former Landlord of Cushendall
for his Integral Union of Human Society:

in accordance with Turnly’s vision, please submit art or essays about:

"A theory of the combination of the whole human race, throughout its nations, tribes and subdivisions, into a harmonious system…in accordance with revelation, reason and experience."

» The Irish contribution to, and losses during, the Napoleanic wars

» "Mathematical or biological concepts of the integration of parts, each infinitesimally small and yet united, towards a functioning whole."

» How the fine arts would serve "the grand design", such as "the harmony of the gestures of a Chinese actor to music"

Please email the artist Lycia Trouton with your entry.
Deadline each year.
Prizes awarded in the first week in August at The Tower Open House Evening

CAROUSEL

linen thread, wooden sticks, silk-worm pods, human hair, flax filament, mirrored beads. Hinge.
Cotton sheet. 2006

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HINGE/FOLD SERIES

Folded paper-painting 'sketches'. 2006.
chalk; found objects (printed note-paper, feather, wire); photograms of hinges.

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COPYRIGHT: © Artist Lycia Trouton 1991-2008.

Updated September 2008