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Emin and Bourgeois
An extract from the non-fiction book: Predators, Survivors, Creativity where I look at the relationship between Tracey Emin and Louise Bourgeois. ”Louise Bourgeois was a French artist who spent much of her artistic working life in New York. Similarities can be drawn with Emin in terms of a difficult upbringing: her father was…
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Apple Picker Bag
I worked on this Apple Picker Bag several years ago, using Rag Rugging techniques I used reclaimed upholstery fabrics to create this unique form.
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Makefest Manchester 2015
Just a quick look at the workshop held for last years Makefest held at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry: ”Alison Little is a North West based Artist who works across the creative spectrum. Often working around the medium of Textiles, the use of reclaimed materials is key within her practice. As a creative…
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Nightmare
Vision of a Nightmare This graphic art works was created for the Critter Shed, a grass route zine distributed from the Baltic Triangle in Liverpool. There artists call asked for submissions around the theme of Nightmares. The outline of a male face has been created, the features of the face have been blurred out,…
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Proposal: Kendal Calling
An extract: The creation of a Rhino from disused car tires, creating a sculptural form which is natural in it’s representation but industrial in its choice of materials. Binding techniques used throughout the piece, tires deconstruction varied, prominent features such as the horn to demonstrate obvious use of car tires. Fluorescent cut vinyl to…
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Tracey Emin and Margate
An extract from the chapter of the book I am writing, the chapter on Tracey Emin looks at the impact of growing up in Margate: Effect of the decline of Margate on Emin’ life and creative works to date The importance of Margate, Emin’ home town is prominent in many of Art works and…
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The Green Man
A few extracts from the proposal I put forward for the Green Man festival to be held in South Wales this summer 2016: Polythene and shredded Paper Form Since 2014 Alison has been using polythene and shredded paper to create artworks, the first of these being Bi Polar B for 2014 World Mental Health Day…
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2014 John Moores Painting Prize
When deadlines arrive for the this John Moores painting prize I thought we would take a look back at the last 2014 winners of the biennial competition: Here come the Girls The John Moores Painting Prize 2014 was the year the Girls brought it home for Contemporary British Painting. Held at the Walker Art Gallery…
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Super Lambanana Peacock
The Super Lambanana Peacock or ‘Lambie P’ for ease of terminology was painted at the end of the 2008 Capital of Culture for the Peacock in Seel Street, Liverpool where it still stands proudly today.
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Emin and Locus
Extract from the book I am writing where we discuss the relationship between Tracey Emin and Sarah Locus: ”The closeness of Emin and Locus peeked around the period of ‘The Shop’ which they ran in Shoreditch in the mid Nineties. They created ‘The Shop’ to market their artwork and although this was conducted to a…
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