webography

Webography

Whilst doing the research for this project I didn’t use any books, I only used internet web pages for information about Queen Elizabeth II, the history of Queen Elizabeth II, her coronation and Jubilee, information on the British Commonwealth and information on Nick Elphick.



All of the websites below were found by online Google search engine.

www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/queen_elizabeth_ii

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth.ii

www.royal.gov.uk/hmthequeen/earlylife/earlylife.aspx


http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/TheCommonwealth/TheCommonwealth.aspx


http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/TheCommonwealth/TheQueensroleintheCommonwealth.aspx


http://www.broughton-jnr.lincs.sch.uk/for-children/geography/commonwealth/y3-commonwealth


http://nickelphicksculpture.co.uk/

All images used within my project were taken from Google images

Conclusion/Evaluation

         Whilst working on this extended project, I have come to understand the importance of working for an independent company and working to a set deadline to produce a piece of artistic work. To be honest, I wasn't really interested in the Queen, her Jubilee or the Royal Family as a whole in any way, but in doing this extended project I have learnt that it doesn't matter if I'm interested in the subject or if I like what the subject of the project is, what was important was to get the required work done and for it to be done on time.

         The printing process undertook within this extended project did help me with my future projects, it gave me a better understanding on working within a time scale and has helped me work faster and more precisely within other projects I have worked on since working on this extended project. Working on this project has given me a broader understanding of various printing techniques and what printing techniques are appropriate to work with within the given task. This project also gave me a better understanding on how to research a given subject, whether the subject interests me or not.

        I can't think of much else I could of done on this project to improve it, I could of produced a wider range of samples and experimental work within different techniques of printing and, I suppose, I could of written more for this essay, but I found it quite difficult to write too much about a subject I'm not really that into! If the project was about tattoos or graffiti, I could have written a lot more words on them subjects!

The Commonwealth

The above picture is of the Commonwealth Flag

 

       Within the British Commonwealth, there are 50 member countries. The membership to the Commonwealth is entirely voluntary and countries can withdraw from the Commonwealth whenever they want to. The members of the Commonwealth have different constitutional statuses, the countries that are Realms means that the country has Queen Elizabeth II as Sovereign, and the countries that are known as Monarchy means that it is a Commonwealth country that has it's own monarch as Head of State, ie. Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia so Australia is known as a Realm, whereas Malaysia has it's own monarch so it is known as a Monarchy. Some of the Commonwealth countries are also called Republics, which means that they are governed by an elected president.


        The largest member of the Commonwealth by size is Canada, which is nearly 10 million square kilometres, and the most populated country with the Commonwealth is India which is inhabited by nearly 1.1 billion people! The worlds most driest and sparsely populated country is also part of the British Commonwealth, which is the African country of Namibia. Most of the countries within the British Commonwealth were, at one time in history, under British rule and were collectively known as the British Empire.

          As the Head of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth II plays an important role in bringing the countries within the Commonwealth closer together as a sort of community. The way Queen Elizabeth II strengthens the ties between the countries in the Commonwealth is to make regular state visits to the different countries in her Commonwealth. During Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years reign as the Queen of Britain and the Commonwealth, she has visited almost all of the countries within the Commonwealth many times except for Cameroon, which joined the Commonwealth in 1995, and Rwanda, which joined the Commonwealth in 2009. Since 1977, Commonwealth Day has been celebrated every year in the commonwealth communities on the second Monday in March.

          As well as specific countries, Queen Elizabeth II is also head of 14 British Overseas Territories all over the world, including 7 Australian External Territories, 2 New Zealand Dependent Territories and 2 New Zealand Associated Territories.

         When on the state visits to the countries of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth II would wear smart, suit dresses with a hat. In most of the pictures I have seen of Queen Elizabeth II on these visits she is normally wearing the same style jacket blazer with a skirt, a hat, and is normally holding a bouquet of flowers in her hands, most probably given to her by a member of the public of the country she is visiting.

History/Jubilee/Coronation

     

 Queen Elizabeth II was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary on 21st April 1926 in Mayfair, London, to the Duke and Duchess of York. Elizabeth was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, and at the time of her birth she was third in line to the throne behind Edward the Prince of Wales, who would go on to be King Edward VIII, and her father, the Duke of York, who would go on to be King George VI.
       Princess Elizabeth was given the name Elizabeth Alexandra Mary after her mother (Elizabeth), and her parental great-grandmother (Queen Alexandra), and her parental grandmother (Queen Mary).
       After knowing each other for many years, Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten's wedding was announced by the Royal Families house when the couple returned from a visit to South Africa in 1947. They were married that year on 20th November in Westminster Abbey, but because it was shortly after World War II, Princess Elizabeth, as well as many young brides across the country at that time, had to collect clothing coupons in order to make her wedding dress.

      
       

        In 1952, Princess Elizabeth's father, King George VI, was in ill health and on 6th February 1952, Princess Elizabeth was informed that her father had died while she was staying in Kenya with her husband, Prince Philip.  Princess Elizabeth's coronation took place over a year after her father's death, on 2nd June 1953 in Westminster Abbey, the same place she married her husband, Philip Mountbatten.

      
       In 2012, Queen Elizabeth's reign as the Queen of Britain and the British Commonwealth hit the 60 year mark and was celebrated as the Diamond Jubilee. The celebrations in 2012 were to commemorate Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne following the death of her father, King George VI in 1952, despite the coronation not actually taking place until 1953. Queen Elizabeth II is only the second monarch in the history of Britain to have ever had a Diamond Jubilee, the other monarch being Queen Victoria I in 1897. During the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, Queen Elizabeth II visited many of the countries within the British Commonwealth.   

     

Nick Elphick

     

  Nick Elphick is a British sculptor based in North Wales who specialises in realistic-looking works that include a horse and a portrait of a punk rocker. Nick graduated from Loughborough University in 2002 with a BA Honours in fine art sculpture and since then he has been working to fully understand the techniques and the meaning of sculpture.

       Nick Elphick was commissioned by the Chester City Management to design and make 60 giant Queens head sculptures, which he made out of clay, for various different schools and colleges within the Chester/Cheshire community to decorate for the Queens tour around the country to mark her Diamond Jubilee.

Yaohnanen Tribe heart Prince Philip!!!!

The photograph above is of members of the Yaohnanen tribe of the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu, holding a picture Prince Philip sent to them of him holding a nal nal, a weapon the Yaohnanen tribe use.

Prince Philip Is God!

This is a link to a video on YouTube of a 20 second clip of 'An Idiot Abroad' starring Karl Pilkington. He visited the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu in the south Pacific were there's a tribe called the Yaohnanen who are part of a religious sect called the Prince Philip Movement.

This humours clip gives Karl's straight-to-the-point view of the sect and Gods as a whole!