Yellow quilt

Our project was a practise of inclusion, collaboration and community-building. The result is a spectacular record of the thoughts and passions of a rich diversity of humans at a moment in global history.

"Sharing this experience with fellow fibre artists across the globe is incredible. These quilts represent the unity that we should be striving for, and display many of the ways that we feel this is not happening."

— Libbertine, England UK, Article 8, the Yellow Quilt

UDHR Yellow quilt

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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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British-born, but now an Australian citizen, Rebecca Ray trained as an apprentice with the Royal School of Needlework, graduating in 2008. She continued working in their commercial studio for a number of years, doing textile restorations and new commissions. Rebecca is a textile artist whose medium is predominantly hand-embroidery. She uses these traditional techniques to investigate contemporary subject matter.

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Article 20

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

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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).

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Article 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

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Cathy Speed is a craftivist and designer from Melbourne, Australia. Her work primarily involves themes relating to feminism and women’s rights, with a focus upon text-based works. The use of text stems from her training as a graphic designer, bringing the medium off the screen to give it a tactile power.

She has exhibited in group shows in Melbourne and participated in various human rights art displays, always in the medium of thread and fabric.

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Article 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

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I’m a textile artist and designer. I work with, and only with, recycled and repurposed textiles. Through them I invite people to talk about issues pertinent to the fashion and textile industry, such as overconsumption, contamination, and violations of human and labour rights. I tend to use craft tools, not only because I feel more comfortable working by hand, but also to show my appreciation to them, and also to show that things made by hand have beautiful value in contrast with the ones made by impersonal machines that surround us. I consider myself a craftivist and I love cats :) 

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Article 17

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

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Lisa Halldén (Ragtale) is a journalist with a passion for storytelling. She went to school in London and although a big part of her heart remains in England, she has for many years been based in Sweden. As a journalist, her storytelling mainly revolves around news reporting in her local Stockholm area, but when thread is put to fabric, the scope widens.

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Article 16

Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

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Georgie Millard is a wife, mother, health worker and part-time stitcher. She lives in England by the sea with her family and rescue dog, Miss Jean. She was raised in a family of conservatives, but is the black sheep of the family and has very liberal left views!

She learnt embroidery as a small girl and took it up again as an adult to help with her mental health, after suffering with postnatal depression. The embroidery addiction soon took over and before she knew it, her boxes of floss were multiplying and her fabric stash was taking over.

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Article 15

Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

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Kristine Berg has worked in theatre, film, and television as a prop-maker, prop master, costume craftsmaker and costume textile artist for over 40 years. An American citizen, she moved to Cape Town, South Africa, with her husband in 2006, and has been committed to introducing and mentoring talented people who had been unaware of the career potential of their creativity. She has worked on projects in Nigeria, Morocco, Qatar and Hungary, as well as South Africa and the United States, which has given her the opportunity to collaborate with people from a variety of cultures.

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Article 14

Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

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Mare Maticevski is currently undertaking a Master’s in writing and publishing and is a passionate educator, librarian and creative with a strong focus on social justice. The power of human stories embolden her as she strives to contribute to and share stories of diversity. She expresses her activism via multidisciplinary creative works, including writing, performance, filmmaking, printmaking, puppetry, photography and fibre arts.

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Article 13

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

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Barbara Bryn Klare is a conceptual artist and researcher who uses rescued textiles, photography and other media to reference contemporary culture, society, and politics.

Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Budapest, South Korea, Canada and the United Kingdom and has been reviewed in Huffington Post, Woven Tale Press, Art Bra Austin and Culturestr/ke.

She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Article 11

Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

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Shelly Georgopulos is an American fibre artist who works from her studio in the Philadelphia suburbs. She learned to love embroidery as a child while stitching with her grandmother and aunt. Drawing inspiration from the world around her, Shelly’s style is as varied as her interests, with one commonality: meticulous attention to detail. 

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