This is England

Brief: UAL Unit 12 This is England

Crit #2 – Assessment Presentation

CRIT POWERPOINT: NEW!! final crit-structure unit 12

Wednesday 10th Feb

2:30 Reece

2:45 Laura

3:00 Charlotte

3:30 Karolina

3:45 Natalia

Thursday 11th Feb

10:15 Sesilla

10:30 Gosia

11:20 Tasharna

11:45 Sohni

Crit 1 Feedback – This is England (All Students)

Unit 12 assessment all THIS IS ENGLAND

At this stage you should have completed your proposal, research, idea development, action plans and several shoots. Remember this every important criteria that asks that you undertake new learning and personal development! You must work at a higher level than you have previously, and you must take risks and challenges that you never have before!!

3.2 Critically evaluate and reflect on learning to inform personal development

CRITIQUES: THURSDAY 28TH JANUARY

9:15 – Reece

9:30 – Tasharna

9:45 – Sohni

10:15 – Natalia

10:30 – Karolina

10:45 – Laura

11:30 – Sesilla

11:45 – Gosia

12:00 – Charlotte

CRITIQUE STRUCTURE: Your critiques will be structured slightly different this time and you will presented evidence from your project based on criteria from your unit (AS DISCUSSED IN LESSON WED 20TH). You will of course still present your proposal/idea/theme/concept and the visual work you have produced, but as your presentation will be marked against criteria, you will present your work in these sections. At this stage of your project, you should be halfway complete and should be able to show evidence for the following criteria:

Use this powerpoint to help you to structure your presentation: crit-structure

1. Understand the audience for a chosen art and design activity

1.1 Analyze the characteristics of the audience for a chosen art and design activity

1.2 Use analysis to develop research activity

1.3 Interpret research activity to develop ideas and creative proposals for a chosen art and design audience

2. Be able to plan and implement art and design activity for an identified audience

2.1 Demonstrate independence in decision making in planning and developing creative solutions

2.2 Select appropriate materials and processes to develop creative solutions

2.3 Apply practical skills, knowledge and understanding of an audience to produce creative solutions for a chosen art and design activity

POWERPOINT STRUCTURE:

Further Narrative Development:

SYD SHELTON
ROCK AGAINST RACISM

http://autograph-abp.co.uk/exhibitions/rock-against-racism

Syd Shelton’s photographs capturing one of the most intriguing and contradictory political periods in British post war history. Between 1976 and 1981, the movement Rock Against Racism (RAR) confronted racist ideology in the streets, parks and town halls of Britain. RAR was formed by a collective of musicians and political activists to fight fascism and racism through music.

Under the slogan ‘Love Music, Hate Racism’, it showcased reggae and punk bands on the same stage, attracting large multicultural audiences. At a time when the fascist attitudes of the National Front were gaining support, RAR marked the rising resistance to violent and institutionalised racism.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/06/rock-against-racism-book-syd-shelton-clash

http://www.bjp-online.com/2015/09/rock-against-racism-how-an-artistic-movement-took-on-the-national-front/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/syd-shelton/

Jan Klos Photographer London

http://www.janklos.com/index.php/recent/

Formula for storytelling: narrative formula

Narrative Challenge:

The Narrative Challenge

Complete the task, select your 15 images. Post them to your blog in the form of a slide show or a video (make it quickly through imovie). Add your title and 3 sentences explaining your narrative.

If you liked this challenge, do it again in your own time with the same guidelines. If you have not completed this successfully, you need to.

Evaluate:

What did you identify as things that you were afraid of? How did you focus on overcoming those fears in this task? Did you overcome the fears? What went well about this task? What went terribly? Talk about your strengths and weakness. What did you learn? How did you improve your confidence? Why did I ask you to do this task?

This task is graded and marked against this criteria for unit 12:

2.1

Demonstrate independence in decision making in planning and developing creative solutions

He came to prominence through his candid photography of his family in Cradley Heath, a body of work later added to and published in the acclaimed book Ray’s A Laugh (1996). Ray’s a Laugh is a portrayal of the poverty and deprivation in which he grew up. The photographs, which were taken on the cheapest film he could find, provide brash colours and bad focus which adds to the authenticity and frankness of the series. Ray, his father, and his mother Liz, appear at first glance as grotesque figures, with the alcoholic father drunk on his home brew, and the mother, an obese chain smoker with an apparent fascination for nicknacks and jigsaw puzzles. However, there is such integrity in this work that Ray and Liz ultimately shine through as troubled yet deeply human and touching personalities. The critic Julian Stallabrass describes Ray and Liz as embodiments of “what is in legend a particularly British stoicism [the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint] and resilience, in the face of the tempest of modernity.”

In 1997, Billingham was included in the exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Art which showcased the art collection of Charles Saatchi and included many of the Young British Artists. Also in 1997, Billingham won the Citigroup Photography Prize. He was shortlisted for the 2001 Turner Prize, for his solo show at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/07/richard-billingham-rays-laugh.html

http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/richard_billingham_articles.htm

Project Presentation Schedule:

Thursday 14th Jan – peer pitch

Wednesday/Thursday 27th & 28th Jan – Peer Critiques

Wed/Thurs 11th & 12th Feb – Peers Crit/Project Presentations/Assessment

Joel Goodman’s shot of New Years’ Eve on Well Street in Manchester, which has been shared around the world.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/jan/04/manchester-street-scene-perspective-sistine-photo-new-year-renaissance-painting?CMP=fb_gu

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/03/like-a-beautiful-painting-image-of-new-years-mayhem-in-manchester-goes-viral

Image Lecture:

This is england lecture

This brief shares the title ‘This is England’ with a film and mini-series of the same name by Shane Meadow, however the title is only there as a starting point and you are not necessarily asked to react or respond directly to this film. The film was chosen as a reference to this project simply because Meadow’s brings to light many themes that have illustrated and affected British culture – many of these themes still resonate today:

MARTIN PARR – Celebrated photographer Martin Parr travels around England during the summer of 1998, armed with a DV camera and a mission to define ‘Englishness’ through the nation’s subjects.

Think of England (tx. 27/4/1999), shown as part of the BBC’s Modern Times series, continues Martin Parr’s project, documented over thirty years as a Magnum photographer, to expose the eccentricities and casual bigotry of England’s white ‘moral majority’. The film’s rainswept resorts, dual-carriageway picnics, and village-of-the-damned fetes are unmistakably English, but Parr’s surrealistic style (ugly close-ups of a bulging bicep with blurred “Liz” tattoo, or the naked lunch of a cardiac-inducing Sunday roast) is more reminiscent of American photographers Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston, and film-maker David Lynch.

CINDY SHERMAN – New York based artist, Cindy Sherman, is famous for her photographs of women in which she is not only the photographer, but also the subject. She has contributed her own footage to the programme by recording her studio and herself at work with her Hi-8 video camera. It reveals a range of unexpected sources from visceral horror to medical catalogues and exploitation movies, and explores her real interests and enthusiasms. She shows an intuitive and often humorous approach to her work, and reflects on the themes of her work since the late 1970s. She talks about her pivotal series known as the `Sex Pictures’ in which she addresses the theme of sexuality in the light of AIDS and the arts censorship debate in the United States.

GREGORY CREWDSON – Gregory Crewdson is a unique photographer who creates “movies” through a single photograph. Gregory, along with a massive crew, scripts out, sets up and shoots single photographs that are beautifully epic. The photographs he creates explore a psychological nature of humans that can be both majestic and disturbing. The creativity shines bright in the work of Gregory Crewdson.

SALLY MANN – “In Response to Place” in association with the Nature Conservancy is narrated by Joanne Woodward and takes a look at some of the most beautiful places on earth through the eyes and lenses of the world’s greatest nature photographers. Having recently switched from picturing her children as subjects to landscape, Sally Mann chose to travel to the Yucatan and use color film in her antique, large format camera for the first time. The Calakmul Reserve is the northern end of the largest remaining forest in Mexico and Central America

National Identity

Bullying, gangs, violence, abuse and racism

brotherhood and the bonds of friendship ; power of authority

Government order/disorder and the effect on the classes

Political groups / unemployment

Struggle of the poor and working class families – council estates, family structure (single parents, gay/lesbian, mixed race, abuse, etc) – Social Landscape – have’s and have-nots

Immigrants

‘Hopeless society’

Identity – music, fashion, skinhead, racists,

Anti-social behavior, gender and ethnic diversity, masculinity

Coming of age, right of passage, relationships

Perception of Britain abroad – war

Take this title and interpret it:

Statement – “THIS IS ENGLAND!!”

Question – “This is England?”

Produce a body of work that explores a theme that can fit into your interpretation of the title. Consider the themes that Meadow explores in his work, and what is affecting or threatening England.

Please use the film for reference if useful.

Other resources on National Identity:

British Journal of Photography –

Sept 2015 –