The third and final talk in this year’s Island Voices Lecture Series takes place on Thursday 21 November and will feature an illustrated lecture by Deborah J Stockdale entitled “The Plantation of Ulster: Process, People and Perspectives – The Background of a Narrative Art Quilt” which will detail how she researched, designed and created her own personalised artistic response to the complex Plantation story.
Stockdale’s Plantation Quilt on display in the Guildhall.
The lecture will provide the audience with a sense of what is involved in the highly skilled art of quilting alongside dealing with the challenge of presenting the complex history of the Ulster Plantation.
Stockdale is a well known textile artist whose Narrative Art Quilt forms part of the display of the Plantation Exhibition in the city’s recently refurbished Guildhall.
The artist, who is an active member of the Crafts Council of Ireland and the Surface Design Association of the USA, will describe the complexities involved in designing the Plantation quilt.
Her range of art textile work spans from traditional quilts to art quilts. Her interest in history and narrative textiles has led her to guide a variety of groups in making “story quilts” or narrative textiles which has led to her creating several large scale textile works on historical themes for museums.
Margaret Edwards, education officer at Derry City Council’s Heritage and Museum Service said the final lecture in the series would illustrate the value of the artist and the arts in “purposeful inquiry.”
Ms Edwards added: “The artist can present a complex story such as Plantation in such a way that we can engage with the story in a new way and perhaps form a new perspective. As this year marks the 400th anniversary of the Plantation of Ulster, the Island Voices lecture series offers a timely opportunity for us to reflect on our shared history and, indeed, our shared future”.
The final lecture in the series will take place in the Tower Museum at 1.00pm on Thursday 21 November. Lunch will be provided from 12.45pm.
To book your place, contact the Tower Museum on 028 7137 2411 or email [email protected].
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