Article 20

Natalie Maurer

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:12:14 +0000

Natalie Maurer website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 14:12

Natalie Maurer is maker, high school art teacher and craft-workshop facilitator. She has a passion for learning and teaching, and is forever seeking to further her understanding and knowledge of the arts and crafts from around the world. Natalie seeks to explore traditional techniques and discover contemporary ways to use materials and methods. With a background in teaching visual art and a desire to strengthen connections to community, Natalie is also engaged in facilitating craft workshops and meet-ups. Natalie shares her knowledge and skills with the hope that it will empower others to do the same.

Natalie Maurer

English

Australia

Australian, Swiss

This Article was the obvious choice for me. I spend a lot of time on social media and it was difficult to ignore the shift in the greater social consciousness. More and more people have reached the point where they have had enough. I decided to be part of this project to join the protest, because I too have had enough of the injustices taking place around the world.

I created my interpretation of Article 20 using leftover materials found around my home. I wanted to use what I already had to make a political point. I chose backstitch to illustrate a continuous line drawing of two hands holding tight. The hands are a symbol of strength, unity and quiet resistance. Black thread was used so the image would act as a reinforcement of the text, rather than the focus. I used various hues of yellow thread so the text was clear and uninterrupted.

UDHR Article

Article 20

Quilt

Red quilt

Ceyda Oskay

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:13:08 +0000

Ceyda Oskay website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 16:13

Ceyda Oskay works with a variety of media, from fabric, photography, print, to ceramics. She has exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, Greece, Turkey, Iceland and Kuwait. She curated the Sadu Art and Design Initiative 2016 (SADI) with the Sadu House in Kuwait, a unique residency where eight artists inspired by craft met regularly for three months to learn about the traditional Sadu weaving. She has also taught workshops with the Print Room, Sadu House, and Nuqat in Kuwait, and designed costumes for Taqa Theatre productions. She is currently organising an artist residency on Failaka Island in Kuwait.

Ceyda studied art at the University of Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Istanbul Fashion Academy and Central Saint Martins. While at the University of Chicago, she founded and co-lead Outside the Lines Art Club, and the Figure Drawing Club. She worked with the United Nations for 10 years, and much of her work is influenced by themes of migration, memories, traces, lost histories, and gender.

Ceyda is based in Istanbul, Kuwait and London.

Ceyda Oskay

English

Turkey

Turkish

I worked for the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) for six years, and with the United Nations for a total of 10 years. Thus, the refugee and forced displacement cause is very important to me. I am also a textile artist, so the project combines two issues I am very passionate about.

Article 20 is about the freedom to assemble, and also the freedom to choose to not be part of a group. So many divisions happen in a society once groups become polarised, and I’ve seen this in various places I have lived. It is the issue of groups and being forced to be part of them, or not being allowed to form new ones, that can be the root of so many political and social problems. At the same time, I believe we should also really try to be inclusive of the people around us.

UDHR Article

Article 20

Quilt

Green quilt

Alicia Hagadorn

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:36:02 +0000

Alicia Hagadorn website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 16:36

Alicia Hagadorn is an American painter, fine artist, photographer, and fibre artist from the Adirondacks in New York state. She is currently living in New Hampshire attending art school.

Alicia Hagadorn

English

United States of America

American

This project comes at a very important time in world history. All over the world, countries are electing leaders who favour the few over the many, putting people’s rights in jeopardy. I am participating in this project to fight back against the bigots of the world, and shed light on the very important human rights violations that are taking place.

Article 20 concerns the right to peaceful assembly. This issue is very important because it allows us to organise into marches and demonstrations peacefully. It is our right as humans to express our dissatisfaction with tyranny.

UDHR Article

Article 20

Quilt

Blue quilt

Laura Jane Mitchell

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:51:29 +0000

Laura Jane Mitchell website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 16:51

Laura Jane Mitchell is a Queer white person currently living on Wurundjeri country in the Macedon Ranges in rural Victoria, Australia. She makes art because it’s something to do with her hands (and her heart).

Laura Jane Mitchell

English

Australia

Parents emigrated from England

Embroidery is a slow, quiet, almost meditative process, and as such I like to use it to give reverence to things that may be overlooked.

In choosing Article 20 of the UDHR, I saw an opportunity to honour the long history of activism by Indigenous Australians. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established by Billy Craigie, Tony Coorey, Michael Anderson and Bert Williams in 1972, and it has sat facing Parliament House in Canberra ever since. It is a locus for Indigenous activism and a powerful assertion of the continuing fight for the land rights of Indigenous people in this country.

Australia always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

UDHR Article

Article 20

Quilt

Yellow quilt