Category: Bio-degrade

• Recycled Tampons + er, do I have to?

    So you’ve moved with the green revolution: recycling, re-using carrier bags and you endeavour to sort waste for compost. Due to lock-down you’ve reduced use of the vehicle and invested more time to walking and cycling. The next step: they want us girls to use re-cycled tampons, your first thought? Someone else’s discharge! ew…ew…ew.…

  Alison Little

  June 26, 2020

  accidents, Bio-degrade, Charity, Covid-19, Decay, Degrading, Discharge, Female Icons, Feminine Hygiene, Feminism, Fertility, Green Credentials, Greenery, Humanitarian, Lock-down, Period, Pre-menstraul, Recycle, Recycling, Renewal, Sanitary produce, Tampon, Uncategorized, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• Block Works

  Block Works is the latest concept based practice from Alison Little: comprising of a series of sculptural forms which represent areas of urban residence. An ethnology process where collections of discarded objects are cemented together in block form. The artifacts are selected and encased in the common urban material offering an explanation of those who…

  Alison Little

  March 6, 2020

  Abstract Art, Art, Bio-degrade, Birds, Block, Bottle Shop, Captivity, Card Board, Celebration, Chains, City, Conceptual Art, Crack, Crack whore, Decay, Dogs, Ethnology, Everton Park, Green, Greenery, Homelessness, Installation, Latex, Leisure time, Liverpool, Liverpool Football Club, Local History, Metropolis, Morality, Narcotics, Nature, Nicotine, Parks, Pets, Rain, Uncategorized, Waste Product

• A Future

  A Future Head of Augustus Looms down Baby faced leader Acquisition of colonialism Castles stand proud Once battlements Survived invasions Safeguard our shores Across the beaches Horseback troops thrust galloping to battlement Faster and Faster Classic novels align Our past, our heritage The Empire, British supremacy Victories acclaimed, territory conquered Trains travel coastal bound Frontiers…

  Alison Little

  November 29, 2019

  Bataclan, Bio-degrade, Conquering, death, Decay, Flash Fiction, Home grown terrorism, Poetry, Recycle, Recycling, Renewal, Restoration, Revive, Roman, Roman Empire, Rubbish, Terror Attack, 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

• Freshly Cut

  Free Fall text from Alison Little as a response to the tree wasted area located adjacent to the entrance to Wavertree Park in Liverpool.   Freshly Cut Crisp Pinetree’ Cut freshly, discarded Entry to the park space flanked by the aftermath of festivity Some burnt out Shelled, garotted by flame Others ripe Everlife of the…

  Alison Little

  January 25, 2019

  Bio-degrade, City, Decay, Eco warrior, Ethical, Fatigue, Green, Green Credentials, Greenery, Morality, Nature, New Year, Poetry, Rejuvenate, Renewal, Revive, Uncategorized, Waste Product

• Ensigns make a mark at the Museum

  Last Saturday saw a line of children and adults, tots and basically those mortal getting involved with the fun of flag making. The last weekend of the Liverpool Irish Festival took the Rags Boutique workshop to the contemporary interior to the Museum of Liverpool. A wonderful day spent with a colourful bag recycling project on…

  Alison Little

  November 3, 2018

  Art, Bio-degrade, Celebration, Eco warrior, Engagement, Family, Female Icons, Feminist Art, Liverpool, Recycle, Recycling, Red, Uncategorized, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• 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

• 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