Artist |
Sonia Copeland |
Country |
Northern Ireland |
Year Made |
2009 |
Materials |
Scraps of materials hand sewn onto burlap backing and digital photo transfer. |
Physical Size |
0.56 metres x 0.45 metres |
Owner |
Sonia Copeland |
Location current |
Northern Ireland |
Original |
Original |
Exhibition Events |
The textile piece has appeared in a number of exhibitions including: “TESTIMONIAL SCRAPS: arpilleras from Chile and other parts of the world,” Buenos Aires, Argentine, 2013. “Stitching Resistance: Narratives of Daily Life in Chilean Arpilleras” Osaka, Japan, 2010. “Arpilleras and the Poetry of Survival” Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2011. “The Human Cost of War” London, England, 2009; Derry, Northern Ireland, 2011. “The Art of Survival – the way societies deal with political violence” Hamburg, Germany, 2012. “Stitching and Unstitching the Troubles” Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 2012; Ballymena, Northern Ireland, 2013. “Arpilleras in contested spaces”. As part of the Third International Visual Methods Conference (IVMC3): Visual Methods in Mediated Environments: Connecting Diverse Worlds, Wellington, New Zealand, 2013. “Threads of Life: Quilts and arpilleras that speak out” Liverpool, England, 2009. |
Photographer |
Martin Melaugh |