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Joiners:

David Hockney started creating photo collages in the 1980s and called them ‘joiners’. His earlier collages consisted of grid-like compositions made up of polaroid photographs. Later on he started working with photoprints and overlapping them in order to create a new image. He takes multiple and varying images of just individual subject.

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The Aspiring Jersey Island Geopark Visitor Centre tells the story of Jersey’s geological heritage, with the aim of encouraging Islanders and visitors to explore Jersey and see first-hand how geology has shaped the Island we know today.

Millie Butel , Jersey Heritage’s Landscape Engagement & Geopark Development Curator, explained that Geoparks celebrate the links between people and the Earth. The Visitor Centre will show people why Jersey’s outstanding landscapes and seascapes could make the Island a candidate for future designation. 

She said: ‘Jersey is more than just the rock it is made of – our Island is an incredible combination of natural, built and intangible heritage. A Geopark can tell the whole story and, if Jersey is successful in achieving a designation, it will be a statement of commitment to protect the Island we all love and to promote the landscapes, seascapes and heritage that are important to Islanders. 

‘The aim of the centre is to introduce the Aspiring Geopark project and encourage people to explore Jersey and discover its stories along the way. The Island has been shaped by tide and time over millions of years. Jersey’s exceptional geology and important cultural heritage form the outstanding surroundings we enjoy every day.’ 

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David Hockney is one of the most important painters of the 20th century. If you were to Google, famous British painters, there’s a good chance that Hockney’s name will appear. Born in Bradford in 1937, Hockney was one of the big artists involved in the pop art movement in the 1960s. Pop art was a style of art that was bright, full of colour. It was made by lots of young artists who felt that the art they saw in galleries was a little bit boring.

Born with synaesthesia, Hockney sees colours in response to musical stimuli. Although he has never translated this into his painting or photography, it is a common underlying principle in his designs for ballet and opera stage sets – where he bases background colours and lighting on the colours he sees while listening to each musical score.

A visit to California – where he was to live for many years – inspired Hockney to make his iconic series of paintings of swimming pools in the comparatively new medium of acryclic. “I always loved swimming pools, all the wiggly lines they make,” the artist told CNN in 2017. “If you photograph them, it freezes them whereas if you use paint, you can have wiggly lines that wiggle.”

Taking numerous Polaroid or 35mm photographs of a scene from a variety of perspectives, Hockney would then arrange the collection of images into a cohesive body, creating an almost Cubist rendering of visual reality. He called these collages and photo montages joiners.

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He took photographs by taking numerous Polaroid or 35mm photographs of a scene from a variety of perspectives, he would then arrange the collection of images into a cohesive body, creating an almost Cubist rendering of visual reality. He called these collages and photo montages joiners.

Cubism dispensed with that idea by depicting space as supported by the flatness of the canvas. A cubist work depicts the subject as viewed from several vantage points simultaneously. This is usually represented by the subject being composed of several different planes. He used painting, print working and photography as his 3 media pieces.

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Hockney created photographs that were unique and called these collages and photo montages the joiners. This distinctive approach to image making was a reflection of Hockney’s dislike for photographs executed with a wide-angle lens. By creating his joiners, Hockney sought to reflect the process of seeing, creating a narrative based around visual experience.