Relating to an artist: Tracey Emin

The first Tracy Emin piece I seen was 'my bed'. I did not know what to think at first but when paying attention to detail I understood what was being portrayed through the image. My first feelings were negative, shocked and at times offended. Tracey Emin is not afraid to express herself and takes the route of being very direct. Her art is her mind and can be very personal. I took a dislike to her because she comes across as having low self-respect and it is so different and can be described as outrageous. This has caused a lot of controversy. Some of her work seems to show pain and when she was experiencing being at an all-time low. My view has turned as I do not dislike her but have taken an acceptance toward her and the work she produces. The reason I have chosen her is because she is not afraid to express herself and everything is personal which relates to my topic. Her work shows past time and feeling towards people and that is what I am going to show in my final piece.

Final design idea

For my final design I have decided to create a sculpture of a miniature table and chairs using thin card board. The idea is to cover the objects using photos and images from Wordle, Text Image and Tagxedo. I am also going to create sentences to go onto the legs of the table to describe how I feel about family. The reason I chose this idea was because my family are brought together when we have a meal for a special occasion such as Christmas or Birthdays, and so it represents the six of us and presents the images well

Third final design idea

My third idea was to use an old face and use images to represent time. The baby photos would be used to show the first hour etc, and throughout you would see me and my family growing older ending on the number 12 that would display present time. For the back ground I was going to use ‘Wordle’ to display words with meanings to show my ICT element.

Second final design idea

My second idea is to create a timeline using photos from birth to present. For the final design I would use roughly ten photographs and join those together using words from ‘wordle’ such as, love, trust etc. This idea is not one that I have created as timelines have been around for a long time but it is popular and I have put my own touch on by using words to join the images together. It is a simple idea but very effective, and I feel that it can show the progression well from birth to now.

First final design idea

For my first idea I was looking to create a photo montage to display good memories while at home and on holiday. To combine the images I would create pictures and messages using ‘Tagxedo’ and ‘Wordle’. If I were to use this for my final piece I would have used an A1 board to present it on as it would be large and eye catching. I feel that making a photo montage is very straight forward and could be described as easy, so to add my own twist I would include detailing such as flowers, little drawings, sequins etc.

Introduction to my ICT project

the topic idea that i have chosen is called 'memories' which is going to be based on close family. I hold a lot of happy child hood memories and i am keen to show this through photographs. Throughout the book i am going to dsiplay my other final design ideas along with the artist i am going to relate to.

What is education? Guest speaker 9

On our previous lecture we had Jane Davidson who was the Education Minister for 7 years. It started off by Jane giving us an outline on her background and how she began her career. She began by teaching and from that she went onto explain that the National Curriculum was introduced because originally different parts of the country were learning about certain subjects more than others, and so the curriculum came into place so that everyone is on the same level, taught the same and to have similar experiences. 1997 was then brought up as labour came in and the famous quote ‘education education education’ by Tony Blaire drew people in as they showed a high passion for education. It was also mentioned that the students were being taught information to make them pass a test or exam and not to widen their education, a lot of disagreements came up and it was vital to address this issue. The year 1999 brought something big as the national assembly for Wales was put in place along with a set of members.
Jane got asked to become minister by Rhodri Morgan for Education and Lifelong Learning. She wanted to make alterations and set goals such as making more contact between Primary and secondary schools to help with preparing students, making use of schools outside opening hours by creating clubs and holding activities, introducing the Welsh Baccalaureate for ages 14-19 to provide the learning of new skills and to have school councils so that student voices can be heard and to have a say in matters. ‘The Learning Country’ which was published in 2006 was explained throughout the lecture giving us outlines on the policies and goals. The policy was to introduce a new curriculum which was the foundation phase, and to also bring in a decrease in class numbers and to set up breakfast clubs to help parents who are working, but the main point for this is that they found children were not having adequate meals and in order to learn you have to have a good breakfast to take you throughout the day. The last main point was that The Learning Country was made to be a 10 year strategy, and the reason being is because by the time the new curriculum would be introduced and then put in place it would have taken a number or years for it to be put into practise and so ten years would cover it.