Category: Arts and Culture
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Can People Escape the Neurophoria? – A Powerful AI & Digital Art Exhibition at FACT Liverpool
Discover Can People Escape the Neurophoria? at FACT Liverpool – a powerful new media and digital art exhibition exploring artificial intelligence, human choice and digital identity through immersive installations. Other exhibitions at Fact include works by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Nina Davies.
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Foraging Memories
Foraging Memories by Alison Little is a reflective short story exploring grief, connection and nostalgia through the quiet discovery of everyday objects, revealing how personal belongings preserve memory and meaning in an increasingly digital, contactless world.
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Hearts Are Not Just for Valentine’s Day: A Style, Home & Culture Guide You’ll Love All Year
Hearts aren’t just for Valentine’s Day. From bold fashion and heart-themed boots to cosy home finds, cultural reads, music and romantic city experiences, this guide shows how to wear, style and live with the heart trend all year round – with confident, modern pieces that go far beyond pink clichés.
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The Loss
The Loss is a short flash fiction piece by Alison Little, written in response to Charlotte Hodes’ Silhouette: burnt orange, exploring grief, miscarriage and quiet recovery through an intimate moment on the Dorset coast.
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Grief Letter
Letters to Forever brings together deeply personal reflections on love, loss, and the ways we continue to carry those we’ve lost. As part of this evolving grief‑letter installation, Alison shares a handwritten message to her partner Dave, written two years after he died during the first wave of COVID‑19. Her letter sits within a wider…
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January Newsletter
A reflective round-up from alisonlittle.blog bringing together January’s writing, artwork and local cultural coverage — from returning to digital sketching and feminist conceptual practice, to flash fiction, hidden heritage, major Liverpool events, and the continuing campaign to reopen Breck Road Library, alongside new thinking about public art, play and creative space in the city.
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From Daily Digital Sketches to Infinite Painter: My Journey into Digital Drawing
A reflective look at my journey from daily digital sketches in 2025 to digital drawing in 2026. This post explores the challenges of using Krita, the switch to Infinite Painter, and how perseverance, experimentation, and texture-led sketching helped me reconnect with digital art and push my creative practice forward.
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Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas: The Shop and the Birth of a British Art Legacy
In the mid-1990s, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas ran The Shop in Shoreditch, a short-lived but hugely influential space that helped shape late twentieth-century British art. Blurring the lines between art, commerce, and social life, their collaboration became a defining moment of the YBA era and a touchstone for third-wave feminist art.
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Fight to Reopen Breck Road Library Continues with Liverpool Protest
The fight to reopen Breck Road Library continued on Saturday 22 January, as former staff, community workers, councillors, and residents protested outside Liverpool Central Library. Campaigners highlighted the impact of the abrupt closure on Anfield and Everton communities, with young people speaking out about losing access to local library services.
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Liverpool Central Library Comes Alive for Year of Reading Launch
Liverpool Central Library came alive on Saturday 24 January 2026 as the city launched its Year of Reading with a vibrant day of poetry, performance, flash mobs, and storytelling. From spoken word exploring homesickness and identity to standout Scouse poetry and powerful historical insights, the event proved that reading in Liverpool is anything but quiet.
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