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Sam Fender is a Geordie Musician from North Shields, Tyneside. He writes and performs all of his songs. Fender says he draws all his inspiration from all what he is surrounded by, how he has grown up in Newcastle and Tyneside. He never meant for it to be such an act of protest bringing up social issues that surround him as it is what is around him. Sam uses his songs to talk about important issues highlighting aspects of life that is normal day to day that shouldn't be considered normal and is actually quite distressing and destructive to society. Play God is one of those songs, throughout the song he is referencing the toxic masculinity and corruption of those who wield power. From the lyrics "Am I mistaken? Or are we breaking, under the weight from all the time, he played god?", to the music video showing Sam being taken from authoritarians and forced, assimilated into the higher power's way of life. With kids being brain washed by propaganda, given guns and made to play the mans game. To women forced to pose solely for the male gaze. As well as the subliminal messages flashing across the screen at certain points; the first words being 'roleplay' and 'pay attention'. Fender uses the music and the video as a sign of protest to show that it isn't right what the world is doing, you should fight back against it, don't let the world and a force above crush you down to their size. You don't have to play the game. The visuals and the composition of this entire video really struck with me, and what I hope to achieve, something as outspoken as Sam is. I have taken some inspiration from him and will defiantly create my own responses as he has.

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Adapt is a creative climate organisation dedicated to using design, humour and contemporary culture to communicate climate issues. Adapt encourages community and action to share knowledge to others. They share this knowledge in multiple ways, via posters, zines, clothing, accessories, installations, and protests. One of my favourite things that they’ve created is the climate guide zines, a guide at how to approach the topic of climate change with the people that surround you. It’s a clever little zine that is available for anyone for free online, with the option of printing it out yourself. The idea of creating a guide is incredibly cleaver and a great way of spreading information, this is something I certainly want to do. To create my own guide, showing my way of protest and how to do it, how to give it a more personal touch possibly.

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Greta Thunberg - No One Is To Small To Make A  Difference

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Greta Thunberg - No One Is To Small To Make A  Difference

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Greta Thunberg the teenage revolutionary taking the world by storm. Thunberg is known for her protests outside the Swedish parliament building every Friday during school. She protested and still does for climate change. She took the world by storm to why many have come to mock and diminish her because of her being so young.But what they don't seem to realise to which Greta has said time and time again, all she does is repeat the facts that scientists have given time and time again to governments, and the public worldwide. And that if it takes her to strike to make the world see what the population of the world is doing to the environment of our home then she is willing to pay the price. It is inspiring for her to take a stand for her generation , to demand for a better future, to uproar a revolution against the ignorance of current politicians. However it is also heartbreaking, for a child to have to do this, to pause her life, to have her childhood stripped from her, like the majority of kids these days have come to experience because the ruin the generations behind them has left. Kids no longer have a normal childhood which all deserve as they have produced crippling anxieties that they have no future as the world is on fire and there is no where else to go. Greta has made countless speeches which she collected and released in a small publication called 'No One is too Small to Make a Difference'. This small book said everything she felt, and warned, voicing her grievances, yet few listen to her and merely take her word as a token rather than a warning. Kids shouldn't have to fight for a future at all but it is something that has always been common within youth culture however not as impact full and relevant as it is today. This is why I have chosen to go down the route of protest and radicalism as it is so prominent in the youth culture of today and it is shaping an entire generation for the better.

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Today we did a little workshop on different ways of bookbinding. With the new workstation we were given the opportunity of testing out equipment that will allow us to efficiently fold and bind our own books and zines. This was a fun and informative little workshop as it allowed me to think about how I would like to bind my own zine, if I were to gone that route. We did a couple of techniques the first that folded all your pages in half or however you wanted which was incredibly fast. I then split up my folded pages into two piles one a normal little book stapled in the middle which we used a stable machine that held it all together. And the other pile I used to make a french fold stapled on the front. The traditional way is something i'm used to but the french fold is something I rather like. If I were to go down the zine route I would certainly consider doing a french fold as I feel like it gives it a personal, fun, and professional touch.

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Merijn Hos is a visual artists who illustrates, animates, and art directs. What I have been looking at is Hos’s physically work with ceramics. With an upcoming workshop using ceramics I wanted to research and get a look as to what I could create myself when given the opportunity. I chose these works as they’re not what I would usually think myself when it comes to ceramics, they’re like plated sculptures with beautiful illustrations. I really love the use of bright colours against the pale natural colour of the plate which is something that I’d consider doing however with not so many colours perhaps one or two striking colours. The shapes of the ceramics remind me of plates, decorative ones which has given me some ideas if I were to go down the road of making my own ceramics. I have the idea of making my own protest plates that could be used for the sole purpose of being smashed; possibly glued back together like Kintsugi but not with gold but other colours.

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Erika Iris is an unconventional artist who uses alternative materials to create her artworks. Iris’s use of different materials to illustrate what the actual materials are; like how she used the video tape of Kill Bill to create an artwork of Uma Thurman who played the leading role of Beatrix Kiddo. This is such an interesting, fun, and innovative way at looking at illustration to use a material to illustrate itself. I really like the idea of using alternative materials, something you wouldn’t necessarily use but could; I would like to do this myself however in my own way to adapt an unconventional material to fit it for a purpose that wasn’t its intended use.

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Corita Kent was an artist, educator, and advocate for social justice, who has left behind a legacy of artwork and social change through her teachings and artwork. Kent’s work evolved from figurative and religious, to images and slogans, then elevated to a political stand point in the 60’s using her work to makes viewers stop and think about the injustice of racism, poverty, and political views that cause harm and hate. Sister Corita Kent was exponentially a well known figure in the art and protest movement and still is to this day. Kent used her found fame to create countless political pieces for social change.

Kent’s work stayed true to who she was, just adapted the viewpoint; sticking to her use of a combination of type, colour, and imagery. I like the flow of the type it’s so free and wavy, not bound by structure  or rules which I think is apt to what it is being protest pieces. As to protest is an act of defiance and change, to which she did taht through her art. The eye is a technique she used frequently combining imagery into her work often in times using it to illustrate it along with the words, it makes it more memorable. Personally I like Corita’s work and has give me some ideas about the structure of my work and how I could incorporate imagery however I don’t want to create something that has become the norm (posters) but something that possibly teaches its views beyond the social injustices of life.

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Rob and Roberta Smith is a pseudonym for Patrick Brill a contemporary artist known for his advocation for art education and use of slogans through to do so. Smith uses his platform to bring attention to the importance of art education within school. By creating his slogan art works it brings forth the discussion of why it is important and starts the conversation to what is needed to be said. I like the way Smith used colour and saw the slogans as a way to be creative and not stick to the bounds of your stereotypical traditional slogan culture. The way he’s structured the slogans having a freestyle type, with multiple colours that both contrast and compliment each other. I like the use of his techniques very much making up his own type in the process which is something I am interested in creating myself a protest type. Smith’s work is dedicated to the notion of progress and that is what I value and hope to achieve when going about this project. I will make some of my own responses to the current political climate, to show my views and voice the importance of certain issues.

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Misbeheaving Bodies - Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery

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Misbeheaving Bodies - Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery

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Today I visited the Misbehaving Bodies exhibition at the Welcome Collection. The exhibition was a reflection on how illness can disrupt and change us, the way of our body, our family, and friends. It looks beyond the diagnoses of the two artists who boy got sick one in the 80' and the other in the digital age. They look at the more complex viewpoint of how the illness takes upon a person and what end of life care is like. They used this space to tell the stories of their lives, of this impact-full time of their life and what it did to them. It was interesting to see how they had documented their lives, through pictures, writing, articles, letting people see the deepest part of themselves. They also had a small booklet accompanying the exhibition which included multiple interviews those with families who have also been impacted by cancer as well as the artists themselves. This exhibition showed me that telling a stories is not always your stereotypical book, but can be told though pictures, quotes, thought and feelings, that it is not always linear but something each person achieves on their own. I will have a different way of approaching my work from now on thinking at how I could reflect my thoughts and feeling in my project for the audience i'm appealing towards.

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Freedom Press Bookshop and Publishing House

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Freedom Press Bookshop and Publishing House

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Today I visited the Freedom Press is an anarchist bookshop in Whitechapel, it is dedicated to anarchism with its deep history. The bookshop offers all books, zines, pins, badges, clothes, cards anything and everything related to the freedom of speech. I got caught up in multiple sections loving the array of classic radical pins they had, as well as books you wouldn't find at your usual bookshop. However there was a couple of zines that caught my eye, Protest Stencil. This zine was published in 2019, and is an anti ad zine, dedicated to the protest against your every day ads, how they integrate in to your everyday life trying to sell you into the capitalist scheme of the world. In this zine is a collection of photographs of protest posters that have replaced where ads usually are seen throughout London. I really loved this zine how it was a collection that showed you all they different causes that people are fighting for in the city, that there is so many issues that need to be looked at. I also like the use of the stereotypical stencil and like the idea of creating my own stencil for the use of protest. I also like the idea of creating a zine as well, possible make it a collection of responses or something in one form or another as a look at protest.

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Today I visited Gay's the Word. A small LGBT bookshop located in Russell Square, that has been there since 1979. This is a place I often visit and go to talks to and find the latest books, it is a place for the community to relax and find their own. Now they also have a small archive within the bookshop which there are many historical artefacts in the bookshop from classic LGBT posters, to original signs from the 'Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners'. But there's one aspect of the shop that really drew me to what i'm doing for this project and it was the perfectly kept badges and pins for everyone to view. These badges once belonged to Paud Hegarty, a gay activist, member of the Icebreaker Collective and bookseller and manager of Gay's the Word from 1983 to 1997. These badges span over years and truly show how different, yet so similar the world is. Some of the badges have older gay slang that isn't used as often but still have the same messages that we convey today. I really love the collection of the badges, at how personal and outspoken they are, how they are little badges of pride and protest that truly shows ones own self expression. I really like the idea of creating my own badges, to see what that would be like, taking inspiration from some of the badges I saw here.

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Today we visited the The Cass Archives. The Cass Archive collects a vast amount of books, zines, patches, buttons, artwork pieces, and one of a kind items. We got to have a roam about anything we found interesting. I found several books which I thought were pretty cool. I liked 'In Loving Memory of  Work' a recount of the miners strikes throughout the 80's also 'Flyposter: Posters from the anticopyright network'. Flyposter was full of posters that were in a sense anti propaganda; protest posters that protested against anything that was a face of injustice. They branched to may causes like, war, poverty, capitalism, aids pandemic, homophobia, transphobia, homelessness, fascism, etc. The book was a collection of various rather than just one subject. I felt it was chaotic which I loved, chaotic yet liner, you knew exactly what you were in for when looking through the book. The vibe it gives is essential what I love about it, that it is an outlet to let out all your frustrations and the feeling of contempt against the man in any and all ways. This is essentially something I would hope to achieve, an outlet for others to live out their grievances.

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Today we visited the Youth Culture Archive at Printworks. The Youth Culture Archive is an archive of photographs from different UK sub cultures, even some that travelled to other parts of Europe. This archive is dedicated to collecting and archiving these photographs and making them available to the public. When we were brought into the building they took us into the archive a small studio which had all the photographs, negatives, and books that were donated in order to preserve. They introduced us to all to who they were and what they were about as well as showing us all the various cultures and sub cultures from the last century. After the talk they then showed us the archive of photographs they had collected over time; via submissions from photographers or random people who had came forward with person photos. They let us roam free but first not without showing us how to find what we want, to which I asked were they kept their images on radicalism and protest which was something I was interested in. There was an entire draw dedicated to the different forms of rebellion, these pictures showed protests from anti-war, anti-racism, anti-hunting, as well as many others. Looking at these helped broadened my horizons to radicalism and protests is, that it is not always your stereotypical march with banners, that what you wear, what you do, can be an act of protest. The archive really gave me a new perspective and drive to want to look deeper into what they have in this archive. I will defiantly go on and look to what they have in their public archive to see what else I could do with this project.