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Northlands Road, Magee Campus
BT48 7JL Londonderry
United Kingdom
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Lorna Dillon is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Ulster University. Her research focus is Latin American art and she is particularly interested in textile art. Her current Leverhulme project ‘The Symbolic in Processes of Transitional Justice: Textile Art in Latin America’ explores the work of textile artists and art collectives in Latin America that use embroideries, quilts and arpilleras (applique art) to mobilize against injustices and human rights abuses.
Lorna is working with artists, academics and textile art groups from Chile, Colombia and Mexico to explore the way they use needlework, exhibitions and the internet to unify communities and communicate about issues that are important to them.
Lorna’s doctoral research was on the embroideries, papier-mache sculptures and oil paintings created by the Chilean artist Violeta Parra and this led to two books: Violeta Parra: Life and Work (2017) and Violeta Parra’s Visual Art: Painted Songs (2020). Lorna has also published journal articles and book chapters on Violeta Parra’s art.
Lorna's wider interests include surrealism; 1960s art; Chilean art; Pop Art and the iconography of human rights. She is affiliated to the Belfast School of Art research unit and welcomes inquiries from potential PhD students with research interests relevant to her interests.
2019 – 2023 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
2020 -2021 Henry Moore Foundation Research Grant ‘Britain Chile Solidarity’
2017 Consejo de la Cultura y los Artes (Chilean government), travel award
2017 Institute of Fine Arts, University of New York, travel award
2017 Higher Education Funding Council for England event funding via the Culture Capital Exchange
2006 - 2009 AHRC Doctoral Award for the research project ‘Violeta Parra’s Visual Art’
Executive Committee Member
17 Jun 2020 → …Fellow, Higher Education Academy
2018 → …Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Lorna Dillon (Organiser) & Catherine Boyle (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Lorna Dillon (Organiser) & Margarita Cuellar Barona (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Lorna Dillon (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Lorna Dillon (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review
24/09/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities