We create for purpose, not perfection. Our message is in our making. Our quilts represent our personal and universal commitment to defending human rights everywhere.

"All thought should be respected as long as it respects others. That was the purpose of my embroidery. Every day, I try to live with this kindness. Opened to the world. Looking at this work, I hope that the viewer can feel this kindness."

— Marine Fisch, France, Article 18, the Green Quilt

UDHR Green quilt

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Article 10

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

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Nadine Jones is currently an undergraduate at the University of the West of England, studying fine art. Nadine recently completed an Erasmus exchange at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where she further developed her interest in textile art and gender politics. She is interested in pushing the boundaries of contemporary textile art, from working with embroidery, hand-weaving and knitting into forms that express the experiences of the female body.

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Article 9

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

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I love the brightness of luminous tones; I refer to them as ‘mashangane colours’. Associations of bright colours as well as embroidery are related to Shangaan people, which is inherent in my own ancestry. 

Some of my other works have been inspired by Vilakazi Street in Soweto, where I live. In one project, text was embroidered onto a 30-metre piece of purple and yellow ribbon, which reads like a narrative of Vilakazi Street, chaptering different points of interest along the street. Visitors were invited to embroider symbols, thus including the illiterate. 

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Article 8

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

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Di Ellis is a printmaker and hand-sewer. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art Printmaking (Honours) from RMIT, Melbourne, in 2008.

Her practice explores costume, identity, place and social position.

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Article 7

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

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I am an artist and arts therapist. I currently work as a counsellor with refugees and people seeking asylum, and I am confronted daily by the human rights violations that are occurring on our own doorstep, and the impact this has on people and families. I also have the privilege of witnessing people’s strength and resilience, and their ability to grow though experiencing great adversity.

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Article 6

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

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My work is informed by travels and reading and study over the years. My Master’s degree explored issues of immigration in the earliest traces of my family I could find, and how that impacted on a sense of place as exemplified by lace. It has also made me aware of the marginalisation of people and what it is to experience prejudice (though in a minor degree).

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Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

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Through various media and techniques, Joanna Barakat’s work is predominantly portraits that explore how we interpret and construct our identity. Interested in alternative forms of communication, she brings together elements of painting, photography, Palestinian embroidery and street art to challenge and question collective ideas and stereotypes using a reimagined contemporary Palestinian aesthetic.  She moved to Los Angeles from Jerusalem when she was a year old, where she was raised until she moved to London for university.

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Article 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

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Jessica Wohl received her Bachelor of Fine Art from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2001 and her Master of Fine Art from the University of Georgia in 2010.

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Article 3

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

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Alexander Hernandez is a first generation Mexican–American artist. He received his Bachelor of Fine Art (2007) in painting and drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado, and his Masters of Fine Art (2012) at California College of the Arts in San Francisco in studio art. His current work is mixed media with an emphasis on textiles.

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Article 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

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Sarah-Joy Ford is an artist and curator currently based in Leeds, England. She has studied at the University of Leeds, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, School of the Damned and Manchester School of Art. She is co-director of SEIZE projects; an artist-led organisation programming events and exhibitions in the United Kingdom. Recent exhibitions include Queen, COLLAR (Manchester); Weaving Europe: the world as mediation, Shelley Residence (Paphos); SuperTonic, Copeland Gallery (London); and Wish You Were Here, Stryx Gallery (Birmingham).

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Article 1

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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Sam Harlow Black is a mother of four, and stepmother of three. As a craft-based textile artist from the northern suburbs of Melbourne, she has always been a fanatically creative person and self-taught painter, hand-spinner and crocheter from a young age. Through her studies in teaching, textile design and art therapy as well as lived experience, she has developed a strong practice in handmade textiles which include her own unique and quirky illustrative style.

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