This #arpillera, made by a group of 15 #Mampuján women, envisions their return eight years later to a community free from violence. The central figure clad in white, with his broken rifle and military apparel thrown aside is a powerful symbol of peace cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Exhibition Launch
We invite you to the launch of exhibition "Aftershocks-The sensory afterlives of violence"
23 April 2026, Thursday, 5pm for 5.30pm
Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, York Street, Belfast
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In 2021 we made this short film as a contribution to the online exhibition (Des) Tejiendo Miradas / (Un-) Stitching Gazes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4JAC...
Conflict Textiles thanks Owen Silverman from The Netherlands for his interest in our collection and his recent visit. We look forward to continuing our collaboration.
Aftershocks:the sensory afterlives of violence 13April - 13 May @ulsteruni.bsky.social Belfast school of Art, York Street, Belfast includes 7 conflict textiles.
Conflict Textiles has built many partnerships over the years. Locally for example we have enjoyed working with Flowerfield Arts Centre. Most recently Refugee Week 2025 - Community as a Superpower cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Aquí se tortura / Here they torture In this arpillera the absence of sun and bleak mountains evokes a dark dark and sombre atmosphere, perhaps a reflection of the topic. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
The Africa Quilt. This quilt was made by Roland Agbage, a young quilt-maker from Kogi State in Nigeria and designed with Polly Eaton from Britain, who lived in Abuja Nigeria for many years. It is now in the @ulstermuseum.org collection cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Unamos las manos; Queremos la paz / Let's interlace our Hands; We want peace! This Peruvian arpillera was made in one of the workshops of Lima. It was set up during the war between government forces and Shining Path and still exists as a space created by/for women. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
No a las alzas - No a la dictadura - Basta de hambre / No to inflation - No to dictatorship - Enough of hunger This arpillera depicts women from a poor neighbourhood protesting at inflation, dictatorship, and their continuous hunger as a result of both. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
This #arpillera was sewn by Imelda Purcell during workshops facilitated by textile artist Deborah Stockdale as part of the PEACEIII Stitching and Unstitching the Troubles programme in 2012-13, delivered by Causeway Museum Service and Mid Antrim Museums Service. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Aftershocks:the sensory afterlives of violence 7 April - 13 May @ulsteruni.bsky.social Belfast school of Art, York Street, Belfast will include 7 conflict textiles. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
This arpillera portrays the issue of #domesticviolence and a woman’s effort to get justice. First, we see a pregnant women being brutally attacked. The room is in disarray, a child cries, and neighbours peer through the window cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Conflict Textiles busy as ever preparing for several major events including Where are They? ¿Dónde están? Exhibition. This will be held in August in the Art Gallery @ulsteruni.bsky.social cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
On 4 November 2010, Pilar López set to work on this #arpillera during a workshop titled – “An Emotional View of Evacuation in War time”. one of several workshops linked to the The Human Cost of War exhibition at the Tower Museum, Derry/Londonderry. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
#worldpoetryday The book, Arpilleras Poéticas, was published and launched in Chile in December 2023 at the National Museum of Arts to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Vaso de Leche: Ayer - Hoy - Siempre / A glass of milk: Yesterday - Today - Always made by Taller de Mujeres Creativas in Peru. The top section 'yesterday' shows women inside their homes, happy as their children enjoy drinking milk. #internationaldayofhappiness cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Guantánamo: Legality, Art and Resistance workshop today. Conflict Textiles curator Roberta Bacic is taking part in this workshop at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Photo of the participants in the March 4 event at Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos
Matucana 501, Santiago de Chile cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
This #arpillera, upbeat and hopeful against the backdrop of poverty and political repression, depicts scenes from everyday life in a Santiago “población” (poor area). Industrious arpilleristas are at work... #internationalwomensday cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Urdiendo Redes / Weaving Networks
Today at the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos
Matucana 501, Santiago de Chile cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
This #arpillera depicts a protest by a group of 59 members of the Association of the Families of the Detained-Disappeared, who chained themselves to the gates in front of the former Congress building in April 1979. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Marcha de las mujeres de los mineros / March of the miners' wives, daughters and sisters This arpillera, by TL, is a replica of an original made in a Mujeres Creativas workshop in 1985. Here we can see clearly that TL, like other arpilleristas from Peru, adopted much from the Chilean tradition.
This arpillera by Francisca Báez Avila, Barcelona, Spain, was made for International Women’s Day 2009, during a 12 session course at Fundació Ateneu San Roc, facilitated by María Viñolo and Alba Pérez. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
In 2019 we held the War torn children exhibition at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. This exhibition of textiles and memorabilia highlighted the devastating impact of war on children. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
On #internationalmotherlanguageday we suggest that Conflict Textiles is a language that can bring those speaking different languages together. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Conflict Textiles heads back to Chile next week to take part in several events including Urdiendo Redes / Weaving Networks on 4 March at Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos
Matucana 501, Santiago de Chile cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
Conflict Textiles features in many publications. We thought we’d start to share some of these with you. #conflicttextilesbooks
Our Argentinian Ambassador Ana Zlatkes ran an arpillera workshop on 28 Jan for children between 5 & 10 at Museo de Arte Popular José Hernández. Children alone or in pairs made an #arpillera and then explained what they did.
We have changed our profile image to this arpillera Dónde están los desaparecidos? / Where are the "disappeared"? By Irma Muller. The #disappeared is a central focus of the Conflict Textiles collection. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...