There is no single discipline across the globe that has no representation in some visual culture and contemporary art. The field of study of interest, in this case, is Communication, with journalism as the specialization. According to Benjamin (2010), when journalists merge narrative skills with new technology, they can offer a better understanding of the surrounding environment, clarity, and high quality context. This work shall discuss this piece of combination, journalism, and art, how the latter can help in the development of the prior. The artist of choice for this work is Jeremy Deller, a British installation, video, and conceptual artist born in 1966, London UK. Jeremy Deller does not make use of a single medium, but he rather instigates social interventions. Most of his work is also collaborative (Bibliography, n.d). This work analyzes three of Deller's pictures by linking them to journalism.

The first piece of Deller's work to be analyzed is him flying a flag of a smiley face for Thomas More's Utopia, approximately half a millennium later. This art was jointly designed and hosted in collaboration with Fraser Muggeridge, a flag of the current day well known smiley face hanging over Somerset House in line with the launching of Utopia 2016. More's book had a vision of a self-contained island world where the systems and community had complete equality. This work was timely as the celebration marks exactly 500 years since the seminal work and it captured the attention of the current generation by the use of brightly colored flag, yellow, and a smiley face on it, something that is commonly used today. Journalism entails reporting what has happened and making it known as wide as possible. The content of this price of art by using what captures the attention of the audience intended, and linking it to the real piece of information to be passed out, that is More's work Utopia, gives a clue of how one can effectively carry out their work in journalism  (Ellis-Patterson, 2016).

The second piece of work is the exhibition on Venice Biennale (Batty, 2015). Last year's Venice Biennale exhibition was highly concerned with the plight of workers. Jeremy Deller delved into the industrial heritage of Britain in exploring the emerging of the urban working class and its effects on culture and society. His work portrays as much play as it does politics. On a wall is a series of Victorian pictures of unidentified South Wales female workers looking startled and exhausted after a hours of rock breaking, titled 'The Shit Old Days.' The title makes reference to the "The Good Old days,” an entertainment show on BBC. His idea was to criticize the company for calling the day one is not working a day off. Deller further put a comparison of the current day and the past ones to drive the point home by the placing of a black banner with the text messages being sent to workers with zero hours. This form of art being a form of activism, where the plight of the oppressed is highlighted connects to journalism. Journalism in itself is not only about bringing out stories to the light but also to speak out for the voiceless, being bold not to be afraid of telling the stories while being careful to ensure you capture both the playful and political parts (Batty, 2015). Just as Jeremy Deller did, journalism requires one to have adequate information that they can link current happenings to what occurred in history and use aspects like comparison or similarities to make sure that a story brought forward is clearly heard.

The third piece to be examined for this work is Jeremy Deller's life-size inflatable Stonehenge version (Jones, 2012). Stonehenge over the years has had a negative perception of it being evil and not a place worth risking a visit. Some of the negative perceptions have come from medias like movies portraying it in bad light. It has been a lonely place, adrift from a bouncing castle as far as the east is from the west. For conservation reasons, the English heritage restricts access to the stones themselves.

Creating a life-size recreation of it helps in having the feel of being there in person.

Changing how the general public perceives something is also something that one as a journalist may be required to do sometime in their career. A journalist may have to recreate a real life situation to their audience by either capturing excellent videos or using descriptive words that are excellent. There is no single discipline across the globe that has no representation in visual culture and contemporary art. Specifically looking at journalism and art, the three works of Jeremy Deller described in this work; one can learn many things from art concerning journalism. Jeremy Deller has shown a consistency in linking his work to the past, using brighter colors, mixing play and politics, and finally employing aspects that capture the attention of the audience addressed like in the case of the smiley face on the flag. All this can be borrowed into journalism to make sure the work effectively reaches the audience intended. Regarding the form of art, Deller has used his art to inform, address oppressions, and change the perception of the public from negative to positive, all which journalism  can incorporate.

Appendix

Figure 1: Art number one.

Figure 2: Art number two.

Figure 3: Art number three