Lycia Trouton

Who is Lycia Trouton?

Lycia Trouton was born in Belfast and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

In the 1990s, Trouton exhibited land art in Canada and the U.S. In 1999, after a visit to Northern Ireland, she created the Irish Linen Handkerchief Memorial, assisted by a $5,000 research grant from Canada Council of the Arts. The Memorial 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 at the Quebec's International Biennale of Flax and Linen and has been featured on ABC, 2004, and CBC radio, 2011.