The Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long and 50 centimetres tall that expresses the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

The Bayeux Tapestry was commissioned by Bishop Odo to embellish his newly-built cathedral in Bayeux in 1077. Although the end of the embroidery is missing, the story ends with the Anglo-Saxons fleeing at the end of the Battle of Hastings in October 1066

Creating these Tapestries around this era is a start, a new begining so called photography as it captures and expresses the storys and events that took place.

The Occupation Tapestry

The Occupation Tapestry was the biggest community art project ever in Jersey, and made by Islanders for Islanders. There were more than one tapestry created. Almost every parish was in on the idea of these tapestries to become famous in order to tell the story of what life was like during the five years of German occupation.

 9th May 1995, the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the Island from 5 years of occupation. The tapestry was made from a single panel to the twelve panels, each of which depicted a scene of local life during the German Occupation. Each of these panels was designed by Wayne who gave guidelines on colours to be used on the key elements of the panels to make the tapestry enlightening.

The ISLAND IDENTITY project has produced a website and a report that has identified distinctive qualities of island life in Jersey. You may wish to explore one of those key themes more in-depth as a concept for your project. They are:

Constitution & Citizenship
Communities
International
Economy
Education & Sport
Heritage, Culture & the Arts
Environment

a video to sum up the Island identity project https://vimeo.com/546020507

link to the website; https://islandidentity.je/

The topic/ area we have chose to research into is Heritage, Culture, and the Arts.

link to sources- https://islandidentity.je/report/heritage-culture-and-the-arts

Heritage- It is the extraordinary range of landscape, monuments, experiences and stories that characterise Jersey, and it also encompasses our contemporary interactions with this inheritance and the meanings we ascribe to it. Heritage gives the Island its distinctive look and feel, attracts tourists, and can inspire both intercultural dialogue and a shared sense of place and belonging.

Jersey is unusually rich in tangible heritage assets, some of which (such as the prehistoric site at La Cotte and Le Câtillon Bronze Age hoard) are of international significance.

Fourteen thousand Islanders – one seventh of the population – are members of Jersey Heritage. However, the sector has suffered from chronic underfunding, a lack of dedicated Ministerial input, and the lack of a coherent Heritage Strategy for the Island, all of which the Board suggest be rectified as soon as possible

Culture and the Arts– Jersey has a rich tradition of artistic endeavour, and an enviable intangible cultural heritage.  From music to filmmaking, from painting to poetry, scores of Jersey citizens are now making careers and reputations at international level. Jersey have some excellent organisations (such as ArtHouse Jersey) and events (such as the Festival of Words and the ‘Weekender’) are helping to put the Island on the global cultural map.

Another important innovation would be the establishment of a Cultural Festival, possibly coinciding with a new National Jersey Day. The Board singled out the Battle of Flowers as an exemplum of the enormous power of cultural activity to express identity and provide an important social ritual. Its real value should be recognised by Government not as a tourist attraction as something which unites our communities in a creative, artistic endeavour.

What makes Jersey special is the unique diversity on the island that we have and all the different cultures and heritages that can be represented through the different arts in Jersey. It matters to me as it’s important to know about every individuals background and where they come from , as it is a small Island and having a range of different cultures is always fascinating to learn about and know that Jersey is accepting of all backgrounds. Jersey has some remarkable landscapes and architecture that it is known for such as all of our castles, this represents Jersey through a historical viewpoint and allows anyone to learn about Jerseys culture through these.

Jersey means being in a small community as an Island that will keep expanding in the future and more backgrounds and cultures will be a part of Jersey. For a small island the diversity we have it quite large and in the future it will be represented in more forms of art and shows, as Jersey is known for that.

In order to solidify a cohesive and positive Island identity I think we should all be very welcoming to all backgrounds and accepting of one another even if we come from different places as we all live on the same small Island. If we want to create a positive identity we need to make sure everyone feels comfortable and there isn’t any discrimination. As well as that we should all celebrate and express the different cultures through certain events or forms of art, that Jersey already takes part in.

There will always be some barriers to a positive and inclusive Island. Such as when it comes to different cultures, some people may have certain issues or may not be as accepting as others. This can lead to problems as it would be holding back the progress of Jersey being an accepting community. Other barriers could be that certain people aren’t willing to learn about Jersey’s heritage and only come here for a job for example and see Jersey as a business place only when there is so much more to it that they haven’t been educated on , which limits the amount of people that know about Jersey’s unique heritage.

link to all of Jersey’s culture spots – https://www.jersey.com/culture-here

MAKING OF OUR POSTER

we decided to make a moodboard of al the different cultures/ aspects of Jersey, that makes it unique and give us some inspiration for our poster.

We then got started on our poster and printed out images as well as including the research we did .