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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…

  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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.  

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…

I took the opportunity to interview Nathan Pendlebury at last years Buy Art Fair held at the Old Granada Studios in November of last year; ”One of the North West’ leading self representing painters, Nathan Pendlebury, showcased new work to the exhibition. ‘Fields of Green II’ based on the Tom Waits classic ‘Innocent when you…