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 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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Kristen Franyutti is an American artist working in mixed media and fibre arts. She has won various awards including the 2017 John and Susan Berding Family Endowment Master of Fine Arts Prize, the Varg-Sullivan Graduate Award in Arts and Letters, Special College Research Abroad Money (SCRAM) to travel to Tokyo, Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award, and three Research/Professional Development Fellowship Awards to travel to London, Paris and Quebec.

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Article 9

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

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Cat Evans grew up in Canberra and has recently returned there from living in Melbourne to study art. She is frustrated with the current Australian Government’s lack of empathy towards people who need our help. The #UDHRquilt Project is her first craftivist project and she hopes to be involved in many more. 

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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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Maker of things that question, it is all about extremes with me. I am bound to question structures of all kinds. This is manifest in a number of ways, mostly in a passion for the freedom of sewing-machine sketching and embroidery, but I am also fascinated by geometric metal structures. The hard and the soft path is the one I tread (I am also either dieting or overeating). I have just finished my second year of a Contemporary Design Crafts BA at Hereford College of Arts. 

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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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Liv Martin greatly enjoys making and crafting for its value as a means of expression, and as a strange way to soothe and reset herself. Embroidery has become a favourite vehicle to achieve these valuable states of being and, as such, she pursues it fiercely. 

Having in the remote past picked up a needle to do lots of cross-stitching, she has recently developed an intense interest in the vast world of embroidery techniques, and she hopes to better explore and learn them in order to add those types of skills to her precarious artistic toolkit.

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Article 6

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

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Tatyana Plummer is a 21-year-old, non-binary, first-generation immigrant. Their mother came to the United States after the Soviet Union dissolved to create a better future for them and their family. They are currently pursuing Bachelor’s degrees in sustainability and urban planning. Their interest in pursuing these fields comes from their passion for cultivating sustainable, dense urban areas that give people the ability to create strong community ties.

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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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I have always been a writing person, both in my personal and working life, being a communications manager. Around the age of 45, I suddenly felt my hands itching to touch and work with something solid and tangible. A week-long workshop with traditional Swedish woollen embroidery sent me zooming down the textile rabbit hole. Today I am doing needlework, wet-felting, crocheting, printing, dyeing and making shibori on a semi-professional level, preferably crafting abstract, textile sculptures.

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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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I am a South African artist and writer, living and working in Muizenberg, Cape Town. 

I was born during the very repressed era of Apartheid. Growing up in a completely segregated and separated community rooted in me a longing for connection and integration; something I continue to seek for in my art-making.

With hindsight, I now realise that the secret, unseen world of all living matter—first glimpsed under the microscope in my 10th-grade biology class—provided an alternative narrative to the one I was living: on a microscopic level, everything is connected.

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Article 3

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

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Nina Blackcockatoo is a textile artist, environmentalist, activist, ethnobotanist, horticulturalist and lover of the natural world. She is currently creating natural-fibre clothing and wearable art dyed with plant dyes. Her artwork is about our connection to the environment, and encourages this reconnection within ourselves to see ourselves as part of nature. 

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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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Heather Berry is a book-loving, cross-stitching, true-crime fanatic from Chorley in the north-west of England. She is a library assistant by day (a job she truly loves!) and an assistant Scout leader, and enjoys all forms of creative pursuits. Her favourite activities are museum visits, exploring Northumberland in England and being auntie to the best niece and nephew anyone could ask for: the latter have definitely shaped a need for social change. 

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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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I’m a contemporary fibre and embroidery artist.

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