Category: Conceptual Art
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Biennial: simply ‘Bonerous’
The Liverpool Biennial located the first of its installations of the delayed 2000 earlier in the week. The exhibition endeavours, as always, the take over the Port City for the summer. Those of you craving culture, isolated through covid restrictions, this is art which lends itself to social distancing. ‘Osteoclast’ from Madrid based artist: Teresa…
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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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Sinister Smiles
Sinister Smiles Folded over Strapped down Sectioned off Cajoled, centrally Dropped down from a disheveled Heaven Tossed out of Godliness Rejected from comfort provision for the afterlife No longer good enough, surplus to requirements Perhaps pushed out of a boot Uphill reversing, then shoveled out the back way Redundant of domestic interior requirements Rendering green space urban…
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Contemporary Art Smoothie
Process milk from Damien Hirst calf ensuring it is free from formaldehyde. Add some melon from Sarah Lucas’ Au Naturel, tell her to stop ‘Eating a Banana’ and combine to the fluid. Juice things up with some KY Jelly from Tracey Emin’ bed. Technique: turn everything inside out the way Rachel Whiteread did with ‘House’.…
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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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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…
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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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Keys
Keys is the latest flash Fiction work from Alison Little. Keys Around us we are surrounded by keys, hung from every section, floating around, spinning. Shadows brightly identified by the white surfaces which are the parameters of our encasement in this heaven -like cell. The keys float and dangle head height like angels in an…
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