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Boris ‘Bo-Bo’s’ Halloween
All around us, more than any year previous, excesses of Halloween decorations are taking over the town. Streets are being aligned with spider’ webbing, doors taped and stating ‘Do not Enter’. Window sills adorned with hand-carved pumpkins, illuminated by old fashioned candlelight flickers. As a Nation we stand together: ‘We want Halloween!’ Boris and the…
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Out with the Kar-TRASH-ians
Early autumn we got the good news, after series twenty ‘The Kardashians’ will finally be going off air. A show I have never watched and actively cringed when I hear a radio DJ mention the ‘K’ word on air. Flipped the page straight over after viewing the ‘Kard’ in a magazine headline. In terms of…
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Minted
Minted, an exploration of Capitalism is the latest artworks from Liverpool based artist: Alison Little. ‘Minted’ stretches across the painting, reflecting wealth through the Scouse colloquialism. However, it is neither promotional of defamatory, objective towards the acquisition of wealth. The concept of the painting was conceived BC (Before Covid), it was worked on during the…
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Covid
Covid 2020 came inA new yearSo far awayChina strugglingCulturallyPhysicallyEconomicallyAn extended gap 10 thousand die of fluRemember SARSDidn’t materialiseFigures suggest 20 thousand deathsEarly Feb, quarantine measuresWe were toldMust take it as part of the heardFace masks: no use MarchIt got realItaly hitSchools, universities, everywhereLock-downHospitals couldn’t copeElderly made comfortable as they dieSpain then followedThe USA: invadedCOVID The…
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Shrines through the Lens
Graham Smillie: photographer, has worked on numerous creative endeavours throughout Liverpool and a leading figure within the creative community. We address how his photographic practice took him from capturing the cities musicians to the road side shrines which divide our communities. Graham established his photographic practice in embracing his passion for the music industry through…
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Scribble the Way
Scribble the Way is a logo design concept proposed for Writers Block a new online writing centre which is part of Writing on the Wall. Scribble the Way A scratch, a scroll, a doodle, or simply an intensely worked scribble demands centre stage for this graphic concept: ‘Scribble the Way’. We see the angst of…
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Masks: Why now?
Today marked the mandatory rule for face coverings to be worn in all retailers or the possibility of a £100 fine in the UK. Yet, why now, we must question, at the height of the pandemic we were free to shop without the insistence of masks? At the start of lock down, we were…
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I May Destroy You
I May Destroy You A staggering 6 weeks ago, when lock down restrictions were beginning to ease, our TV screens and minds were illuminated by: ‘I May Destroy you’. I, myself, who fared badly from the pandemic, was starting to recover from a long tail case of Covid-19. This drama series was the primary broadcast…
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Missed: Mrs America?
Wednesday night saw the TV series Mrs America hit our screen in the UK. The series dramatises, more than documents the path of second-wave feminism in the United States. The initial episode centres around Phyllis Schlafly, played by the Hollywood great: Cate Blanchette. Schlafly, a staunch anti-feminist who lead the fight against the Equal Rights…
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Fine Art Cocktails
Too many ‘Sex on the Beach’ for Tracey Emin, the ‘Shaggy’ years, Margate’ solution to an easy ride throughout the difficulties of her adolescence. Sarah Locus stirred a ‘Cosmopolitan’ to remind her of the metropolis, the capital now she has moved to rural Norfolk. The man who screen printed the stars from his down-town New…
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