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Mark Leckey brings the fiction of the virtual works to an oversized reality in three-dimensional form with Zoo Logic. Mark Leckey, the Birkenhead Boy and one-time Turner Prize winner has brought a colossal, larger than life form of Felix the Cat to the upper level of the Walker Gallery. Although his academic life, the gateway…

Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ comes to Tate Liverpool Tracey Emin, one of Britain’s leading female artists, characterised for making biographical artworks, brought ‘My Bed’ to Tate Liverpool last week. Tension mounted over a year since the announcement was made that it was to come the North of England for the first time; there was a…

  Who were the Bloomsberries? The ‘Bloomsberries’ were a group of artists, writers, civil servants and many others who shared similar philosophies and made up what is termed ‘The Bloomsbury Group’. Many of them had met at Cambridge when studying there during the early years of the Twentieth Century. They would meet to discuss ideas…

  ‘Home’ previews on Lark Lane Arts Hub second Annual Open exhibition opened in South Liverpool last week. Arts Hub is a small independent arts collective based at 47 Lark Lane. Opening as a Community Co-operative almost four years ago it has grown from strength to strength. On the ground level, there is a shop…

Life from the waist down Life from the waist down represents the healing process from an act of sexual violence or more specifically: rape. The form presents the idea of strength and recovery in terms of the later stages of Rape Trauma Syndrome when the healing process is under way. Rape Trauma Syndrome is the…

zinesummer2016 (1) Frisson Comics realised the first edition of their publication featuring digital illustration from Alison Little: Vision of a Nightmare The outline of a male face has been created, the features of the face have been blurred out, they can no longer be seen. We can identify a square jaw and a matching short…

Arts Hub in Lark Lane, Liverpool are showing there latest exhibition around the theme of Shakespeare. This is a range of work and prices featuring local artists from Sue Leech to Stephen Mahoney. Alison Little uses textiles medium to explore the character of Bottom from a Mid Summers Nights Dream. Her use of composition is to suggest…

  The Palm House, Sefton Park New work from Alison Little explores new methods of combining fabrics and the use of freehand machine embroidery. We are presented with a mixture of patterns to create variations between flowers, cloud forms, foliage and the man-made structure of this iconic Liverpool Building.    

Hidden Gems launched last Tuesday at the Pen Factory, take a look at the articles:

Billy Childish was in a relationship with Emin from 1981-85 during the period when she attended Maidstone College of Art. Although it appears to have been a troubled relationship she names him as an influence in her work and his names appeared prominently in ‘Everyone I have ever slept with’ which is now destroyed. Childish…