Profile

Dr Lycia Trouton (b. Belfast) is an Australian citizen who has lectured in Darwin, Adelaide and Wollongong, after working for a decade in North America as a site-specific sculptor (organic minimalist installation art and public art for university campuses, civic commissions and community-based work) as well as tertiary level instructor / administrator.

Trouton's scholarly research includes an essay for the book, Echoes of Irish Australia: Rebellion to Republic, edited by Jeff Brownrigg, Cheryl Mongan & Richard Reid. As well, she is a contributor to refereed journals, regularly presents at conferences and writes art criticism, as well as produces artist monograms in print and as an interviewer on DVD.

Trouton holds her Doctorate (DCA) is from the University of Wollongong, 2005, where she held a Research Assistantship for an Australian Research Council large discovery grant on the intersection of text (postcolonial and feminist English literature) and the-art-of-textiles. Her Masters (MFA) is in Sculpture from the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, 1991, and her BFA (Hons) is from Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, 1988. Trouton grew up in Canada. Trouton's practice-led research engages in issues of monumentality (in public art) and its opposite: the intimate art of memory, through the art of domestic textiles. Her long-term work on her mid-level career Canada Council of the Arts funded Irish Linen Memorial (www.linenmemorial.org) developed into her current practice-led research concerns re: restorative justice: language and art in Northern Tasmania.

For 6 months in 2010 Trouton did a fortnightly guest spot on Annie Warburton's evening radio show on ABC Hobart. Producers included Bradley Almond.