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Sound City: Performs
Alison Little, the artist and writer behind many North West based Arts and the creator of this very blog to perform a reading at this weekend’s Sound City. Sound City is the award-winning Metropolitan Festival set to take over Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle this weekend. The unequalled Festival presents an array of new music and the…
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Beauty is Truth
Beauty is Truth is a flash fiction piece written in response to the famous line from John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn. Explicit content to be expected. The Sister in Law I look at her and I see no beauty. I see a woman haggard, prematurely aged and sinful in her ways. Fat encases…
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P-T-S-D
P-T-S-D is the latest poem from Alison Little, it was entered into the National ‘A Poem to Remember’ call out to mark the centenary of World War One drawing to a close. The Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) is being built in the Midlands and looks to be one of the Worlds largest Rehabilitation…
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A-Z of Amazing Women
A-Z of Amazing Women is the new range of prints from Alison Little. The main print takes us through a range of iconic women alphabetically, these are combined with a range of prints of individual women with short statements. She Talks us through why she selected the women for the new range: Anne Frank …
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Rubbish Cards
Rubbish Cards are the latest greeting card range from Alison Little. The card range literally utilises ‘Rubbish’ for the purposes of celebration. Throw away wooden forks are used in full splendour for the collection. Birthdays are marked using butterfly’s, flowers and flags, the message of eating cake added. A traditional Graduation gown marks leaving home…
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Suspended: Bold Place
The Female Suspension The female suspension takes over 5 Bold Place until the 8th of April. The lower bodies were hooked through the groin and suspended from chains earlier in the week. In the shadows of the Bombed Out Church, Bold Place lies directly beside St Luke’s Church, Liverpool City Centre. The Female suspension is an…
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a Lesson in Pseudosciene
A Lesson in Pseudoscience was the second design submitted by Alison Little for Bea in the City, the mass public art trail for Manchester, summer 2018. A lesson in Pseudoscience looks to present an image of a physics-based lecture where the science behind the flight of the bumblebee is explored. We look at concepts presented…
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Leslie shows us the Money
Last week, Liverpool based artist Nigel Leslie talked us through how he had been selected as 1 of 100 important artists to decorate an old £5 note for a charity auction. Names already signed up include the Chapman Brothers, Gilbert and George, Gavin Turk, Liverpool’s iconic Peter Blake in addition to Cyrano Denn aka Danny…
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Making an old £5 note count again
Birkenhead based artist Nigel Leslie has been selected as 1 of 100 important artists to decorate an old £5 note for a charity auction. Names already signed up include the Chapman Brothers, Gilbert and George, Gavin Turk, Liverpool’s iconic Peter Blake in addition to Cyrano Denn aka Danny Crone. ‘Fivers for Artistic’ is a bright…
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Ariana Grande Bee
Ariana Grande Bee is the design submitted for Bee in the city, the mass public art trail to take place in the summer of 2018 in Manchester. This design is one of two submitted by Artist Alison Little. Ariana Grande Bea is a tribute to the star Ariana Grande who took to the people Manchester…