Thursday, 21 November 2024
Event Details
Arpilleras from Causeway Museum Service collection, 'Praying for Peace' and 'Through the Barricades', on display within “The Troubles and Beyond” exhibition. (Photo: Karen Logan) |
| Rotating exhibition: | The Troubles and Beyond |
| Description: | The history of Northern Ireland from the late 1960s onwards has been dominated by the civil and political conflict commonly referred to as ‘the Troubles’. The traumatic events of the years after 1968 touched almost everyone who lived here and many others from further afield. Inevitably, the interpretation of these events is contested in terms of their significance, meaning, and responsibility. While we have a shared past, we do not have a shared memory.
"The Troubles and Beyond" exhibition at the Ulster Museum seeks to provide a platform for conversation and debate about our recent past. It explores politics and conflict and the impact of both on everyday life, people and communities. It also examines the important social, economic, and cultural changes that were taking place here and around the world. It powerfully examines our recent past through a remarkable range of objects reflecting diverse perspectives and experiences.
Textiles from the international Conflict Textiles collection are an integral element within the "The Troubles and Beyond" exhibition and are rotated on an annual basis. This collaboration commenced with an Arpillera Doll Making Workshop in 2017and has since led to the creative exchange of objects and ideas.
Both textiles on display within this rotation were stitched in cross community workshops following the "Stitching and Unstitching the Troubles" exhibition (2012-2013).
Details of the inaugural and subsequent exhibitions are available at The Troubles and Beyond 30 March 2018 – 30 March 2019. |
| Commissioned by: | Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Date(s): | 13th May 2019 - 6th October 2020 |
| Venue: | Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast BT9 5AB, Northern Ireland |
| Curator: | Karen Logan |
| Facilitator: | Roberta Bacic and Karen Logan |
| Outcome: | This display, incorporating women’s cross community textile response to their experience of the Troubles, further embedded textile language within “The Troubles and Beyond” exhibition. |
| Documents: |
• Textile list: The Troubles and Beyond, May 19 - view
• Textiles on display, May 2019 - view
|
|
