Category: Celebration
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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…
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The Liverpool Mountain
Does the luminosity of the latest contemporary public art form in Liverpool turn you on or off? Ugo Rondinone, the Swiss-born, New York-based artist has gifted his work to the Royal Albert Dock in Liverpool. The multi-coloured stack of rocks finished off with a T section had been sited on the waterfront, nestled beside the…
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Hockney Smokney!
Art carnage at the Abbey! One of the most acclaimed artists of the twenty and twenty-first century has turned his hand to stained glass window design. The early career John Moores painting prize winner has risen to the height of producing a stained panel design for Britain, if not Europe’s most prestigious Cathedrals: Westminster Abbey.…
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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…
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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…
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