Week 6

This week I am going to focus on military life through working in the style of two of my researched artists - Kristy Patterson and Tyrone Dalby. I am going to look at the more mundane side of Army life by using photographs of my Dad's service whilst in this country. Looking at Kristy Patterson, I am going to take objects from these photographs which have a similar theme and use watercolour and pen onto book pages. I will bring a book that I can use the pages from. Furthermore, I am going to use maps like Tyrone Dalby to portray the tasks in the photos, for example weight lifting. For both of these artists I need to collate more images of their work. By the end of the week I want to have responded to both of these artists and be ready to go onto look at army recruitment campaigns during World War II and the present day.

During the October break, I am going to visit the War Games exhibiton at the Herbert Art Gallery and take photographs of how life in the home country is different to now. This exhibiton will highlight the debate of child exposure to war, for example, the reality of war wasn't spoken about during the period of the World Wars, whereas now, some content is easily accessible on the internet and there are also games which involve war. While I am in Coventry, I will visit Coventry Cathedral and try to gather information on the effects of the Blitz in the city.