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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  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…