Category: Beauty

• Burned Out

  Alison Little

  November 12, 2021

  accidents, Art, Beauty, Burned Out, Burned Out Car, Celebration, Celebrity Culture, Conceptual Art, Conflict, Found Art, Leisure time, Uncategorized

• Flies of Beauty

  Flies of Beauty is the latest painting from North West based Artist: Alison Little. She explores a range of diverse techniques to create this groundbreaking example of visual arts. The work is 60 cm square, her work being of these proportions in format. The flat panel uses a box mount to set out from the…

  Alison Little

  May 29, 2020

  Acrylic Pouring techniques, Art, Beauty, Butterflies, Uncategorized, Vinyl Artworking

• Natures Tables

  Natures Tables   Stand dipped inward Mushroom high drinking tables Scattered natures gift Natures tables is a Haiku from Alison Little, written as a response to escalating numbers of wild mushroom present in Booker Hill Woods late 2019. Haiku poems originated in Japan, they are made up of three sentences. The first sentence contains five…

  Alison Little

  January 31, 2020

  Beauty, Booker Hill Woods, Foraging, Haiku, Leisure time, Mushrooms, Nature, Poetry, Uncategorized, Wildlife

• Barbie Must Die!

    The top 10 reasons why Barbie must die and be with us no longer. 10 Goes out with Ken. 9 Drives very slow cars. 8 A bit too fond of Pink! 7 Delicate and brakes easily. 6 Does nothing other than leisure activities. 5 Injection moulded, resulting in her looking like every other injection…

  Alison Little

  November 22, 2019

  American Dream, Aryan culture, Barbie, Beauty, Beauty Pageanting, death, Domesticity, Female Icons, Feminism, Funeral, Gender Roles, Uncategorized

• 1950’s Girls Annuals: the Homemaker

  Seventy years on from when the girls annual of the 1950’s were being read in the  pink bedrooms of the post-second world war generation we look back at there content. Where they looking to inspire the girls who would grow up to lead second-wave feminism through the seventies, or were they looking to indoctrinate the…

  Alison Little

  November 8, 2019

  1950’s, Beauty, Bio-degrade, Domesticity, Eco warrior, Female Icons, Feminism, Feminist Art, Feminists don’t wear Pink, fiction, Flash Back, Flash Fiction, Freedom of speech, Gender Roles, House Wife, Learning, Morality, Recycle, Recycling, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• I must be Miss Liverpool!

  I must be Miss Liverpool! We are seated, lined up, eventually at the final of Miss Liverpool. The seats of the room arched around, judges desks empty for now. They have demobbed to a side room, making the final, ultimate, life-changing decision. I must be Miss Liverpool! It’s taken me four years to get here,…

  Alison Little

  May 24, 2019

  Alder Hey, Alter Ego, Barbie, Beauty, Beauty Pageanting, Celebrity Culture, Conflict, Conquering, Degrading, Delluded, Disorder, Domineering, End of Innocence, False, Female Icons, Flash Fiction, Grafton Rooms, West Derby Road, Light Night Liverpool, Liverpool, Miss Liverpool, re-coil, Reading, Self pity, Sick, Sinful, Uncategorized, WAG, Want to be WAG, Women’s Right

• A Letter to your Former Self

  ‘A Letter to your former self’ was a prompt for a sketch. It comprises of a mixed media image, pen and ink in addition to hard and soft pastels which are fully exploited. The figure representing the artist is almost angelic as it rises above the dangers of the personalities depicted below. The people are…

  Alison Little

  February 22, 2019

  4th of July, Abstract Art, Alter Ego, American Dream, Art, Beauty, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, death, Devil, Disorder, Evil, Funeral, Greasy Hair, Lies, Maine County, Morality, New England, New York City, Police Women, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Rise Above, Senior Police Officer, Uncategorized, Witch

• Do we need a Miss Liverpool?

  The ritualistic process of crowning a Miss Liverpool is an annual event in the city of Liverpool. Initially, relating to the ancient custom of Marriage, the ball-like gown paraded by the contestants often being the traditional white. The notion of a maiden passing of age is also conjured up by the generation of the contestants,…

  Alison Little

  February 1, 2019

  American Dream, Beauty, Beauty Pageanting, Casual Sex, Celebrity Culture, Child Pageanting, Croxteth Hall Park, Degrading, Female Icons, Germaine Geer, Grafton Rooms, West Derby Road, Leisure time, Liverpool, Male gaze, Miss Liverpool, Morality, Photography, Plus Size, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Violence, Same Sex Relationships, Sexualization of Children, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Violation, Virginity

• Love of the Second Hand

  The book was beautifully bound, in impeccable condition and filled with the love of being read and enjoyed. Modern publishing of the classic ‘Arabian Nights’ I had the audio version, or what you used to call tapes when I had been a child. My brother and I had been passed them on from our cousin…

  Alison Little

  December 29, 2018

  Arabian Nights, Beauty, Charity, Christmas, Family, Female Icons, Feminists don’t wear Pink, fiction, Liverpool, Presents, Smithdown Road, Uncategorized, Vulva, Women’s Right

• Eco Chamber

  Eco Chamber is the latest sculptural commission from North West Based artist Alison Little. As part of the Liverpool Independents 2018 Biennial it will form part of the Rimrose Valley Country Park environment art trail.   Concept: Eco Chamber is to be a form created solely from re-claimed materials, a large pod-like structure, fully spherical. The…

  Alison Little

  June 22, 2018

  Art, Beauty, Bees, Biennial, Biennial Independents, Bio-degrade, Birds, Green Credentials, Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial, Recycle, Recycling, Regeneration, Rimrose Valley Country Park, Rubbish, Sculpture, Sculpture Trail, Uncategorized