Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Event Details

'Desde la ventana / From the Window', Anonymous, AFDD. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)

'Desde la ventana / From the Window', Anonymous, AFDD. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)

 

Exhibition:Conflict Textiles presence at the Tower Museum: 2008 - 2024
Description: This exhibition marks 16 years of collaboration between the Tower Museum and Conflict Textiles, beginning with the exhibition The Politics of Chilean Arpilleras (8th Feb. - 19th Apr. 2008) at what was Derry City Council's Harbour Museum. This exhibition was a forerunner to the extensive exhibition programme The Art of Survival: International and Irish Quilts at the Tower Museum (8th Mar. - 19th Apr. 2008) which laid the groundwork for the many subsequent collaborations.

The current exhibition features archive material from the many exhibition programmes delivered in partnership with Conflict Textiles and one Chilean arpillera ‘From the Window’ (1990).

This display is a satellite of the Conflict Textiles retrospective exhibition Threads of Empowerment: Conflict Textiles’ International Journey at the Ulster Museum, Belfast (June 2024 - March 2025).

List of collaborations:
DateCollaboration
 8 – 11 April 2008 The Art of Survival: International and Irish Quilts - Workshops (5)
 5 – 28 March 2009 Women's Real Lives - International Women's Day, 2009
 4 November 2010 – 11 January 2011 The Human Cost of War - An Exhibition of Quilts and Arpilleras
 16 February -24 March 2012 Events of the Year Quilts and Testimonies of Survival: An exhibition of year quilts by Irene MacWilliam spanning over the last 25 years.
 26 January 2013 Holocaust Memorial Day Event "Through the Eye of the Needle"
 6 March – 12 June 2015 Arpillera Journeys: An exhibition of arpilleras and other textiles from the Conflict Textiles collection
 19 November 2015 Launch of Conflict Textiles website
 11 July – 16 December 2016 Conflict Textiles collection: Tower Museum and Guildhall
 9 – 29 January 2019 Conflict Textiles workshops
 24 May – 31 August 2021 Shirts, Singers and Sewing
 9 July – 18 December 2022 Climate Change – The People’s Story
 8 February – 7 August 2023 Mujeres Disruptivas / Disruptive Women: Exhibition trail
Commissioned by: Derry City & Strabane District Council - Tower Museum
Date(s): 9th April 2024 - 21st July 2024
Venue: Tower Museum, Derry / Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Union Hall Place, Derry, BT48 6AF
Curator: Roberta Bacic
Facilitator: Bernadette Walsh, Archivist
Outcome:




Documents: • 2008-2024 arpilleras at Tower Museum - view
• Introduction to Conflict Textiles - view
 




Textiles Displayed:Desde la ventana / From the Window