Dr. Lycia Trouton
Grants & Awards
CO-FOUNDER AND ARTS INTERVIEWER:
Co-founder (2000) with Liza J. Lee and Blogger (2010) of ArtConverge Artistrun.org*
Lycia Trouton, DCA (University of Wollongong: a 35,000 word exegesis on postcolonial English literature (text) and the material culture of the ‘art of textiles’ + a large-scale creative project); MFA (Cranbrook Academy), BFA (Hons) (sculpture) (Carnegie Mellon).
January 2010
Lecturer
Trouton currently lectures in Art History and Theory, with Dr. Deborah Malor (the outgoing art historian) and Dr. Helen Trenos (performance) at SVPA, UTAS, Launceston, Tasmania.
Sculptor
Trouton makes art that engages socio-political concerns in the public sphere.
Sculptor Lycia Danielle Trouton is an Australian/Canadian artist who was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her practice has always engaged issues of site and monumentality; more recently, she has an interest in ‘craftivism’.
Her current installation art has used the art of textiles as a metaphor for issues about the body, violence, trauma and, sometimes, her Irish Diaspora migration.
Her long-term work on The (Irish) Linen Memorial has brought her into recent concerns with restorative justice and phenomenology of space, speech and gesture. She has collaborated with digital sound artists and a renowned Australian choreographer.
In the 1990s, Trouton’s site-sculpture was based on the Pan Pacific (Canada and USA) and was about ecological concerns /sustainable environment.
Trouton’s time-based work has been written about /reviewed by:
- the infamous NYC critic Donald Kuspit
- Los Angeles historian of feminist-matristic art and women in surrealism: Dr. Gloria Orenstein,
- Seattle-based author Matthew Kangas,
- USA Curator (expert in environmental art): Ben Mitchell
- Gerry Craig mid-west USA curator-lecturer, Kansas city.
- Dr. Deborah Haynes: scholar of Mikhail Bakhtin’s aesthetic theory and the former Director of Women’s Studies at Washington State University, Pullman.
- the current A/Director, Centre for Visual and Cultural Studies at Edinburgh School of Art, Dr. Jessica Hemmings.
Trouton has exhibited large-scale outdoor work at several venues including Albright College and Whitman College, USA and worked with award-winning architects Mary and Ray Johnston of Seattle for a public site work for Maple Valley Library, King County.
Speaker
Dr Trouton is an conference presenter and emerging TV presenter-interviewer. With decade-long career history in which she was often interviewed about her large-scale site sculpture: in 2010, Lycia can currently be seen on Joy’s World the longest running intercultural, intergenerational Australian arts interview show, a Sydney-based, STV channel 31 community television show (with approximately ½ million viewers, 3 times a week, Australia nation-wide). She has co-produced a 2009 (one hour) feature for the North-west Belfast Community Television station, Northern Visions. She is currently co-producing a documentary on The Linen Memorial with Lensvision, NSW.
As well as her charitable community arts or public arts interests: Trouton’s scholarly research includes an Irish decorative arts history essay for the 2007 publication, Echoes of Irish Australia: Rebellion to Republic, edited by Jeff Brownrigg, Cheryl Monghan & Richard Reid: ISBN 978‑0‑980390‑0‑4.
As well, Dr. Trouton has contributed to several internationally refereed journals and writes art criticism (published in N. America, Australia and UK), and enjoys writing artist monograms.
Blogger
Trouton is a graduate of a Multicultural Arts Audience Awareness program of Australia Council of the Arts and Kape Communications with RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. Trouton has written for Mosaic magazine (published by Federation of Ethnic Communities of Canberra. www.fecca.org.au), art magazines in Sydney and the USA & was co-founder of an interdisciplinary postgraduate journal at University of Wollongong, entitled Rhizome and its inaugural Editor in 2005. Trouton also formatted the contributors’ essays for senior editors Dr.s Ann Collett and Paul Sharrad on Reinventing Textiles Vol. 3, Telos Art Publishing, London, 2004 (with top international contributors: Australian Narelle Jubelin; USA Indigenous artist Gail Tremblay & Janis Jefferies of Goldsmiths College, U.K). Trouton has written an essay for a book on Irish history, contributed to conference proceedings, refereed journals, and published artist monographs. Trouton has been doing post-doctorate research and practice-led research, as well as lecturing in Tasmania. Trouton will tour her (Irish) Linen Memorial in Quebec, Canada summer 2011.
PRODUCTION GRANTS:
King County Arts Commission, Maple Valley Library
Commission for Public Art for King County district Library Maple Leaf Samara Seeds in bronze
Canada Council mid-level career production grant for The Irish Linen Memorial January
Canadian High Commission, Canberra, ACT grant for The Irish Linen Memorial
TRAVEL GRANTS:
British Columbia Arts Council travel grant to Belfast, Northern Ireland for Horsehead International Projects exhibition
Canada Council Travel Grant to Quebec, Canada
RESIDENTIAL GRANTS:
Bundanon Artist Retreat, New South Wales
NSW Ministry of Arts in conjunction with ARTSPACE, The Gunnery, Sydney, Australia
EDUCATIONAL AWARDS:
International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS)
University Postgraduate Award (UPA) University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Mannesman Demag Senior Award in Sculpture, Carnegie Mellon University
British Columbia Cultural Fund Scholarship
Art Talent Tuition Scholarship, Whittier College, Los Angeles, CA
Full Tuition Scholarship, Otis Institute of Parson’s School of Design, Los Angeles, California
ACADEMIC PRACTICE:
Lecturer of Art Theory, University of Tasmania, Australia. Launceston campus of UTAS www.utas.edu.au
Past Lecturer with University of South Australia, School of Art and Design, SA. Design & Craft History and Theory
Charles Darwin University, NT Advanced Studio Installation Practice and Postmodern/Postcolonial Theory
Kwantlen University College, B.C., Sculpture & 3-D Design studio for the Film Industry
Past Administrator/Researcher with Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, USA
Simon Fraser University, B.C., Canada University of Wollongong, NSW, Aus.
You can also read more about Lycia Trouton on Wikipedia.
Lycia Trouton’s ‘communications skills’ CV, please see:
www.speakercontemporaryart.com
ENDNOTE:
*In 2009, Artistrun (established in 2000) applied for grants for the Cultural Olympiad as a non-profit society called Artistrun Media Society. In 2010, as BC arts faces almost 92% in arts cuts, Artistrun Media Society can no longer exist. The Artistrun blog is changing to a for-profit sole proprietorship model, managed and directed by Liza J. Lee.
All articles written by Lycia Trouton for artistrun.org from 2001 to 2010, present.
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