Red quilt

When we craft, we make something that didn’t exist before. We document ideas and create conversations to be shared by many. Making things proves we have power—the power to change our world.

"For such a personal piece, it had to have part of me in it; I chose to embroider my hands. Hands are important. They can be used to comfort, create and hold. My hands are lined and I have callouses on my fingers from stitching."

Enid Twiglet, Article 27, red quilt

UDHR Red quilt

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Article 30

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

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Lee Stach, who creates by the name Fraser Road, is a fisheries biologist by training with a passion for traditional needlework and fibre arts. Raised in northern Ontario, Canada, at a very young age Lee developed a great interest in, and respect for, the natural environment. Lee’s interest in needlework started at a very young age, when she was taught cross-stitch by her maternal grandmother.

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Article 29

Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

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Danielle Hogan is best known as founder of The GAG (The Gynocratic Art Gallery), an internationally prominent, intersectional feminist art gallery. During her studio-based PhD research she coined the term femaffect, describing the negatively feminised affects that stick to textiles when used by women and other members of the LGBTQ2+ communities in art. She is a textile-based artist, curator, writer and manager of the New Brunswick Art Bank. Danielle lives on the east coast of Canada.

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Article 28

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

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Meredith Butz is an illustrator and fibre artist from California currently based in Seattle, Washington. Her body of work includes embroidery, knitting, sewing, watercolour, crochet, and linoleum-block printing. She has participated in several artist fairs and group shows and has had her work featured by Planned Parenthood and Bitch Media.

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Article 27

Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

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Enid Twiglet was born in East Sussex in south-east England in 1982. Enid grew up deep in the British countryside and spent an awful lot of time playing with insects and hanging out with her chicken friends. She even professionally showed her rare breed hens as a child! Throughout her life Enid has always been fascinated by what others consider ugly, distasteful and weird. Migrating to Perth, Western Australia, in 2004 opened Enid’s eyes up to a whole other world of interesting flora and fauna.

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Article 26

Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

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I am currently working on two community-based projects in addition to my studio practice. Tiny Pricks is a series of Trump tweets and comments stitched into memory textiles. The project has been opened to the public and will end when he is out of office. Interwoven Stories is a visual narrative project with chapters around the world and over 300 fabric pages completed.

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Article 25

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

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Feminist, social worker, academic, researcher and lover of textile arts, Andreia Schineanu has worked with fabric and embroidery for over 30 years as a hobby, but has only recently brought her craft together with her activism. Originally from Eastern Europe, Andreia arrived in Australia over 30 years ago as a refugee.

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Article 24

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

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Brinley Froelich is a multimedia artist who focuses on embroidery, yoga and the written word. She was born in Oakland, California, and now lives deep in the heart of the valley in Salt Lake City, Utah. Influenced by writers of the nearby deserts such as Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and Terry Tempest Williams, her work is rooted in the imagination of place. As a white person inhabiting Indigenous land, her work also seeks to restore rights, land, and power to those from whom it was unjustly stolen.

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Article 23

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

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Tina Struthers is a Canadian textile and visual artist. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, she now lives and works in the greater Montreal region. The focus of her work is diversity, inclusion and human impact on global societies and environments. She creates textile abstractions that attempt to map the unpredictability of the emigrant experience. 

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Article 22

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

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As a visual artist, I feel most satisfied when I have created a piece of art that reflects my thoughts and emotions and imparts these to the viewer.

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Article 21

Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

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Candice Okada is an artist from Vancouver, Canada. She is currently completing her Master of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia, where her primary research is concerned with the visual representation of speculative future technologies and how these objects intersect with and rely on traditional forms of women’s creative labour like weaving, lace-making and braiding. She has exhibited her artwork and published writing in Canada, the United States and Europe.

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