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Installation: Quarantine
Installation: Quarantine Installation: Quarantine reflects the poem; Quarantine, from the late Eavan Bolan. Quarantine In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a man set out from the workhouse with his wife. He was walking—they were both walking—north. She was sick with famine fever and could not…
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Elvis Guitar …UH HUH HUH…
The hand painted Elvis guitar is the latest work from artist Alison Little. We have a love song being performed, the unforgettable white sequin jumpsuit introducing rhythm. The loveable smile and we are ‘ALL SHOOK UP’ by the lyrics. ‘Elvis’ in lights crosses into the inners of the string instrument. The ‘King’ is proclaimed and…
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Leach’ art reaches us in lockdown
Tucked away on the bend of Bentley Road, Leach utilizes the residential window space of her property to create the ‘Burned Cannabis Farm Gallery’. The exhibition space was entitled ‘Burned Cannabis Farm Gallery’ after the activities in the property next door. Utilized for the cultivation of cannabis it was raided by the Police at first…
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Crested this Christmas!
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Tittle-Tattle
Tittle-Tattle is the latest feminist artwork from the conceptual artist: Alison Little. For this works, she utilises a common-place domestic rolling pin and carved a series of comments which reflect on how women judge other women on their domestic abilities. ‘Tittle-Tattle’ refers to the gossipy nature of females, those that blither over abilities to carry…
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Emin: Artist then Being
Last weekend, we gained alarming droplets of information that Tracey Emin, former Turner Prize winner and forever Bad girl of British art, was suffering from cancer, escalating, full-blown during the pandemic. As a result, she underwent major surgery while our hospitals were crammed to the brim with covid coughing patients. After being operated on by…
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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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