Fine Art Foundation Degree

 Coins My idea For my own coins, I wanted to focus on showing how the money itself was made and how each trade directly correlated to the collected wealth and how money is generated by and preserves privilege and by extension also exploitation. The reality of the transactional nature of human relations divides most societies into winners and losers and monetary wealth and exchange lies at the heart of this. I wanted to reflect on this toxic relationship by having a visual representations of the source of the money on each coin, instead of generic designs that could mean anything. This meant I could reference some of the most common money-making trades in the Nottinghamshire area and have them become more specific to the area of Newstead Abbey. My designs                                          For my designs, I tried to show as many different common sources of income as I could, but narrowed them down to four final designs. These were lace, tea, sugar and candlesticks. The lace, tea a

 Newstead Abbey Newstead Abbey is known today as the home of poet Lord Byron (1788-1824), but the original Abbey was founded by Henry II as an Augustinian priory in the 12th century. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, the property was offered to the Byron family by Henry VIII and converted into a home. Over time, the estate has grown, but the original medieval structures survived, including the west front which was constructed in 1274 and the 15th century cloisters, and extensions of the building were made with the stone saved from the main church building. The main building became neglected during William's (5th Baron Byron) ownership. He took out loans to pursue horse-racing, gambling and theatre trips. He couldn't afford to pay his debts so stripped the Abbey of its art, furniture and trees to raise cash. When Lord Byron then inherited the estate from William, he enjoyed the scale and the extravagance it showed, yet because of William, many repairs were ne