Category: Biennial Independents

• Small Steps and Art Activism

  Last Thursday saw Small Steps events take over Make on North Liverpool Docks. Small Steps runs events to highlight social issues through the arts. Last Thursday saw an eclectic mix of performance, a breathtaking visual arts exhibition and engaging workshops drawing attention to Mental Health. Cork-based artist Ann Mechelinck showed us how craft-based practice can…

  Alison Little

  September 21, 2018

  Anxiety, Art, Biennial Independents, Captivity, Conceptual Art, Conflict, Depression, Film, Film Maker, Fine Art Textiles, Gender Roles, Installation, Liverpool Biennial, Male gaze, Mental Health, Painting, Rape and Sexual Violence, Suicide, Textiles, Trauma, Uncategorized, video art

• Cardboard Castles

  Are you king of your cardboard castle? Castles were strong fortresses built to withstand invasion. Saxon Castles were wooden structures, mounds of earth now, grassy peaks protruding from the ground level. Still standing up as always but no longer fit for purpose. The middle ages saw the use of stone to create strongholds were the…

  Alison Little

  August 17, 2018

  Art, Biennial, Biennial Independents, Bio-degrade, Card Board, Card Board City, Castle, Celebration, Conflict, Eco warrior, Ethical, Family, Green, Green Credentials, Installation, Leisure time, Liverpool, Mental Health, Narcotics, Plastic Gangster, Recycle, Recycling, Rubbish, Sandcastles, Sculpture, Street Drinker, Uncategorized, Waste Product

• Take away Lobster to Liverpool

  ‘All the Fun of the Fair’ is the latest installation from Liverpool based artist Alison Little. As part of the Liverpool Independent Biennial, it is being exhibited at 5 Bold Place. She presents a scene based in the American seaside resorts of Maine Country where the lobster is king and sold from the takeaway food…

  Alison Little

  August 3, 2018

  4th of July, Adverse Lifestyle, Alcoholism, American Dream, Art, Biennial, Biennial Independents, Bombed Out Church, Bottle Shop, Bums, Busweiser, Casual Sex, Celebration, Chains, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Chip Fork, Conceptual Art, Conflict, death, Decay, Degrading, Durex, End of Innocence, Evil, Fair Grounds, Fear, Feminist Art, fiction, Fine Art Textiles, Flash Fiction, Forks, Golden Sands, Hanging, Heroin, Homelessness, Hooks, Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial, Lobster, Maine County, Mental Health, Narcotics, New England, New York City, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Rizzla, Sandcastles, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Shief, Sick, Sinful, Sound City, St Luke’s, Take away Lobster, Uncategorized, Warped, Waste Product

• Eco Chamber Marks it’s Territory

    Last week saw the arrival of the various components which will make up the Eco Chamber arrive at Rimrose Valley Country Park. Nestled into the appointed hill they have carved out a route over the brow. Each component is made from re-claimed tyre rims with additional textures of biodegradable plastic bags added using a…

  Alison Little

  July 13, 2018

  Biennial, Biennial Independents, Bio-degrade, Green, Green Credentials, Greenery, Installation, Liverpool Biennial, Parks, Poetry, Rain, Recycle, Recycling, Regeneration, Rimrose Valley Country Park, Sculpture, Sculpture Trail, Uncategorized, Waste Product

• 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