Freestyle sketch by Jacqueline Hammond titled ‘Jaxx World’, mixed media
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Jacqueline Hammond
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Drawn on the 13th Anniversary. 15th May 2012
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Vile: Jimmy Savile – article in Sunday Mirror 14th Oct 2012
The article came out today. I spoke to a reporter last Thursday. Published in the Sunday Mirror 14th Oct 2012. The article is accompanied by two photographs, one of which appears on the front cover of the tabloid newspaper. The photos are those I discovered in the loft of evil (eyed) Savile.
The last sentence lets the whole piece down. It’s wrong, i never said that ‘it was a dirty little secret.” Had I seen the article before it went to print, i would insist this was taken out. But whilst I may have began writing about this as an article on my Artbyjaxx blog, this is not my article.
Overall it stays fairly close to what i felt and said about the course of events to the reporter, bearing in mind that I’ve only just began researching what exactly happened myself. More importantly, just because there was no point in telling anyone, doesn’t make it a ‘dirty little secret.’
She never her told her parents, or any people in authority at the time. That’s the point. Don’t want to encourage the keeping of secrets, that’s what’s at the root of the issue in the first place and how such criminals get away with it. Mum never shied away with damning the hideous man if his name cropped up in conversation with anyone, but never went into sordid detail either, as the last quote (unquote) infers. Its obvious its a last ditch tabloidism thrown in for smut value. The not even the telling the husband bit could cause issue as well. Of course she told her husband, why would she tell me and not her partner?
Being typlically tabloid they’ve speeded up the story but these are the two embellishments I object to. I could write a much better article.
I can honestly say that the article published in the Sunday Mirror today, not one set of speech marks quote the words that came out of my mouth when speaking to the reporter. Any report is a version of events. Turning speech into the written word is like a game of Chinese Whispers. The English language is so loaded that one word can change the meaning of a whole sentence. Once sentence can twist the whole plot. Tabloid newspaper articles may appear to use a more limited range of vocabulary so as not to confuse the reader with unnecessary detail or bias. Yet every word has been carefully selected for its connotative value with the aim of maximising the impact of the piece. When condensing a piece of writing to meet the word count, ones goes for the most succinct way to make the point. Captions are kept snappy with a snapshot, the best headlines hit hard, or use a pun /play on words. Like Twittering. Twittering vultures!
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I recently hung a few of my prints and a couple of originals alongside some of the other JAG artists’ work at Cornell’s Cafe located at the top of St. James’s Street, Kemp Town.
It’s a cool space and I think the results look good. Girl Friday and I didn’t have time to try the coffee or food however we took a few photos and chatted to the nice, friendly staff who took a real interest in what we were up to. It’s not surprising really, we couldn’t find anyone ‘in charge’ so we must have looked like a couple of mad women, desperately struggling with the extremely crumbly wall which made banging a nail in near to impossible, moving tables, standing on seats all whilst trying not to disturb the clientele too much. Eventually, sometime later, having raised a few eyebrows and comments from staff and customers alike, we succeeded. Phew!
I must pop back in sometime soon to sample their wares and to check of course, that nothing has fallen off the wall.
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Whilst priming the board for my piece for the outside wall and thinking what to paint, I thought I’d just whack some paint directly on the wall. The ridges of glue left behind from the printed canvas on there before made a great texture for picking up paint and overlaying colours.
The result was a kind of Monet effect, until abstraction became an abortion! Classic case of of going too far and ruining it. This is what can happen when I don’t have anything in mind as to what I’m painting, I don’t take it seriously and get carried away, then attempts to rescue the piece only make it worse. Not the best method for such a public piece. Best get down there again tomorrow and do something with it.
It wasn’t too bad at this stage:
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I’ve had news that The Pebble Heads are a big hit with the organisers of Stars On Canvas and I’m being encouraged to ‘pebblise’ some more stars on canvas for the auction in aid of The Willow Foundation. So I’m looking at which celebs are also taking part by doing a canvas, there’s Lee Evans, Rick Astley, Katherine Jenkins, Fearne Cotton, Ian Wright, David Seaman, Ricky Gervais (now Karl Pilkington is an ideal candidate!) Now who will be the next celeb to become a Pebble Head?!
