Category Archives: History & Context

From personal insights and extensive research, it has become apparent that mental health among male Military personnel is a pressing issue, and has been since the First World War. Although my research has shown that Royal Marines have lower rates of ill mental health than other services, I believe through personal insights that it isContinue reading “Creative Responses: Cultural Manifesto”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

For our first task in History & Context, we have been asked to create an A2 Typographic Collage using only type and text-based material. To begin with, we looked at the Tate Modern Artist Timeline. In my own time, I looked through the different time periods and chose to look at Robert Capa, Odilon RedonContinue reading “Typographic Collage”