Dr. Lycia Trouton: Photo by Lisa Spindler

LYCIATROUTON

International Artist / Historian

Biography

Projects

The Linen Memorial

This project came about as a vision Dr. Lycia Trouton had–a personal installation on the subject of ‘mending’ and a felt idea of a new way to hold and process grief. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland during ‘the troubles.’ Trouton was impacted by that period of recent history and experienced the loss of 7 of her family friends.

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Dr. Lycia Trouton: Photos by Lisa Spindler

Praise for Lycia

Lycia has immense insight, compassion and remarkable tenacity.

Gerry Sont
Professional Actor, Corporate Presenter, TV Show Host, Australia

The desire for understanding, from the very external and political to the very personal, is the impulse for Lycia Trouton’s work.

Gerry Craig
Associate Professor/Art Department Head, University of Kansas, Manhattan, KS, USA

Lycia brings to ALL her work a commitment to public discourse, an engagement with essential social themes, an extraordinary intellectual rigor and a rare and refreshing integrity. Her public art is significant and beautiful.

Ben Mitchell
Art Curator/Editor, The Nicolaysen Art Museum, Wyoming, USA

I worked with Lycia in the early 1990s… as a curator, I had up to that time never worked with an artist who brought more commitment and discipline to her work… BioLogical Time was beautiful and the work engendered complex intellectual discourse. Essentially, her work touched—deeply—people’s lives. In essence, her art created community.

Lycia Trouton’s environmentally conscious and complex monumental work with natural and so-called waste materials is compelling, intellectually rigorous, and just plain beautiful. In her work, she is helping us learn again how to live together on this fragile, damaged sphere.

Roy Slade
Former President, Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA

Lycia’s work is perched, swaying, teetering and fully enjoying the loss of equilibrium… I am struck by her unique, mystic, creative power… with Lycia the mold was most certainly broken.

Steve Murakishi
Former Head, Printmaking, 
Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA
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