My boyfriend Kieran joined the Royal Marines as soon as he left school at the age of 17. Royal Marines training is 32 weeks long and Kieran unfortunately received a massive blow with a severe hip injury during his final exercise before Pass Out. After months of being in the Rehabilitation Centre on Camp knownContinue reading “An insight to Mental Health in the Royal Marines : Final Manifesto”
Author Archives: Nadya Cheetham
Cultural Manifesto – Insights to Personal Stories
Kieran’s Military history and how we met: My boyfriend Kieran joined the Royal Marines as soon as he left school at the age of 17. Royal Marines training is 32 weeks long and Kieran unfortunately received a massive blow with a severe hip injury during his final exercise before Pass Out. After months of beingContinue reading “Cultural Manifesto – Insights to Personal Stories”
Cultural Manifesto Research
My boyfriend Kieran joined the Royal Marines as soon as he left school at the age of 17. Royal Marines training is 32 weeks long and Kieran unfortunately received a massive blow with a severe hip injury during his final exercise before Pass Out. After months of being in the Rehabilitation Centre on Camp knownContinue reading “Cultural Manifesto Research”
CCI Instagram Campaign
For this brief, we have been asked to create an Instagram campaign to promote the CCI course to potential students. As I am unfamiliar with the software involved in this project, I have made myself a weekly plan to help me stay on track and manage my time efficiently. Week 1 – Understanding and deconstructingContinue reading “CCI Instagram Campaign”
Most Wanted – Create An Icon
For this project, we have been asked work in pairs to create one photograph that visually explains the story of how our Most Wanted face was arrested. We have been given the mug shot of a legend and an icon of a generation, Elvis Presley. We have also been given the story of the arrest.Continue reading “Most Wanted – Create An Icon”
Relationships between Movement & Style in 1900 – 1930s and contemporary advertisements
The task: Find at least two contemporary advertisement examples dated between 2015 and 2019 that you believe could be relevant to some of the concepts, movements or images covered in the relationships lecture. 1930’s Surrealism: Salvador Dali, “The Persistence of Memory”: Surreal art has been well known for it’s way of being able to shockContinue reading “Relationships between Movement & Style in 1900 – 1930s and contemporary advertisements”
Deconstructing artwork
For this task, we have been asked to pick one of the two Rene Magritte images, The Therapist (1937), or The Threatened Assassin (1926), and to follow these steps in the same order: I have chosen to look at “The Therapist” (1937) First, I studied the image for 5 minutes, just looking at it andContinue reading “Deconstructing artwork”
Summary of first module in Visual Narratives
Summery and overview of module: This module was about building up our ability to combine and “steal” ideas, concepts and styles of artists to create brand new images and ideas. We started with the “Invasion of Kingston” brief where we had to use the 8 bit style of Space Invaders to create 3 new images.Continue reading “Summary of first module in Visual Narratives”
Exhibition Poster
Task: Take two visual elements and remix them to create a new iconic image. Design an A2 poster by taking ideas from two artists. Copy, everything is a remix, connecting old ideas to create new ones. First steps: Chose two books from the library on two different artists that will be interesting to remix. ForContinue reading “Exhibition Poster”
Remixing Barbara Kruger
Task: Pick one work of Barbara Kruger and add 3 quotes over the top. Post on Instagram and screen record. I looked though the work of Barbara Kruger and narrowed it down to two pieces that would be interesting for me to remix. I wanted to think about possible meanings or interpretations of the actualContinue reading “Remixing Barbara Kruger”