'Peace Quilt - Common Loss' (physical textile)

Collection: Conflict Textiles (collection)
Organisation: Bacic, Roberta. (individual compiler)

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Title
 'Peace Quilt - Common Loss' (physical textile)
Creator
 Irene MacWilliam (artist)
Artist
 Irene MacWilliam
Country
 Northern Ireland
Year Made
 1996
Materials
 Pieces of red scrap textiles sewn onto a dark backing fabric made up of four long strips.
Physical Size
 2.3 metres x 1.5 metres
Owner
 Irene MacWilliam
Location current
 Northern Ireland
Original
 Original
Exhibition Events
 The textile piece has appeared in a number of exhibitions including:
“The Art of Survival: International and Irish Quilts” Derry, Northern Ireland, 2008.
“The Human Cost of War” London, England, 2009; Derry, Northern Ireland, 2011.
“The Art of Survival” Hamburg, Germany, 2012.
“Stitching and Unstitching the Troubles” Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 2012, Ballymena, Northern Ireland, 2013.
“Textile Accounts of Conflicts- An exhibition of textiles and associated memorabilia” as part of the International Conference Accounts of the Conflict: Digitally Archiving Stories for Peacebuilding, hosted by INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute), University of Ulster, in Belfast, 2014 and in the Linenhall library, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2015.
“COSIENDO PAZ: Conflicto, Arpilleras, Memoria/STITCHING PEACE: Conflict, Arpilleras, Memory - An exhibition of arpilleras and other textiles hosted by three Basque Country organisations” Gernika, Balmaseda and Donostia, Basque Country, 2015/2016.
Photographer
 Martin Melaugh

Collection InformationShowHide

Title
 Conflict Textiles (collection)
Description
 A collection of ten textiles / quilts that illustrate personal accounts / stories of the Northern Ireland conflict. This collection has been drawn from a much larger collection of textiles from Northern Ireland and a range of international countries.
Creator
 Roberta Bacic (curator), assisted by Breege Doherty
Subject
 Textiles / quilts that illustrate personal accounts / stories of the Northern Ireland conflict.
Publisher
 CAIN Web site
Date
 2015
Relation
 More examples of conflict textiles can be found on Roberta Bacic's 'associated site' within the CAIN Web site:
http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/
Format
 Photographs and Text.
Language
 English
Coverage
 The Northern Ireland conflict
Date Formed
 2008
Status
 Active [checked 2017]
Email
 roberta.conflicttextiles@gmail.com
Stories Collected
 10
Stories Deposited
 10

Organisation InformationShowHide

Title
 Bacic, Roberta. (individual compiler)
Description
 Since 2008, Roberta Bacic has curated 120 exhibitions of arpilleras, in Ireland and internationally. Over time, these exhibitions have expanded from arpilleras from Pinochet’s Chile, to include expressions of loss, protest and healing from around the world.

Roberta has identified 10 commemorative textiles from Northern Ireland which will be catalogued in Accounts of the Conflict. These 10 pieces have been selected from a much larger digital collection entitled 'Conflict Textiles' (which is available on-line).

Roberta Bacic, taught at Universidad Austral de Chile from 1973 to 1981. From 1982 she worked in Carlos Anwandter German Institute and San Mateo College both in Chile. Between 1993 and 1996, she worked for the National Corporation of Reparation and Reconciliation, the successor to the Truth Commission. During this time she also taught in Human Rights at the Catholic University, Temuco, Chile. She then moved to the United Kingdom and took up the position of Programme and Development Officer for War Resisters’ International where she worked between 1998 and 2002. She moved to Northern Ireland in 2004.
Creator
 Roberta Bacic
Subject
 Textiles / quilts that illustrate personal accounts / stories of the Northern Ireland conflict.
Date
 2008-2016
Relation
 For more information see:
http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/

Citation

Irene MacWilliam (artist). 'Peace Quilt - Common Loss' (physical textile).
Accounts of the Conflict; Accessed: 22 November 2024 <http://k8s-accounts-01.ulster.ac.uk/repo24/index.php/items/show/3088>
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