Category: Disorder
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Masks: Why now?
Today marked the mandatory rule for face coverings to be worn in all retailers or the possibility of a £100 fine in the UK. Yet, why now, we must question, at the height of the pandemic we were free to shop without the insistence of masks? At the start of lock down, we were…
Alison Little
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A Void
A Void In this, I have agreed to what was termed ‘A life modelling process’ for an artist seeking volunteers for a project he is working on. I stand before him in my dressing gown, nude underneath and wondering what he wants me to do, he tells me: ‘Don’t worry, I have done this lots…
Alison Little
Abortion, Art, Casual Sex, Celebration, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conceptual Art, Conflict, Consent, Decay, Degrading, Depression, Dildo, Disorder, Domesticity, Dust, End of Innocence, Ethical, Female Icons, Feminist Art, Fertility, fiction, Flash Fiction, Gender Roles, Hopital, Illegal Abortion, Impotency, Installation, KY Jelly, Latex, Library, Life Model, Liverpool, Liverpool Central Library, Menopause, Mental Health, Metropolis, Morality, Non-consensual sex, Photography, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Sculpture, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sinful, Social Roles, Suffrage Movement, Third wave feminism, Trauma, Uncategorized, Unpeel skin, Victim Blaming, Vulva, Waste Product, Women’s Right -
Convict Blanket
Convict blanket is the latest art activism works from concept-based arts practitioner, Alison Little. A sensation to shock and stand against rape, rape culture and the authorities put in place to tackle sex crime within our society. Convict blanket confronts us with the homage style of using material available, in this case, the humble scratch…
Alison Little
Art, Barbie, Captivity, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, Crack, Crack whore, Degrading, Delluded, Disorder, Embroidery, End of Innocence, Fear, Feminism, Feminist Art, Heroin, HMP, Male gaze, Male Rape, Mental Health, Morality, Narcotics, Non-consensual sex, Police, Police corruption, Police Women, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Rape culture, Senior Police Officer, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sinful, Slut Shaming, Social Roles, Social unrest, Textiles, Uncategorized, Victim Blaming, Women’s Right -
GHB
Earlier in the week, we saw the conviction of serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga for a string of sex offences against 48 men, it is believed there were many more attacks. He drugged and filmed his victims during the assaults at his Manchester city-centre flat. His date rape drug of choice: GHB, how more than ever,…
Alison Little
Aids, Consent, Consentual Sex, Degrading, Disorder, Humanitarian, Male gaze, Male Rape, Manchester, Morality, Narcotics, Non-Consentual Sex, Off to Uni, Police, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Reynhard Sinaga, Safe Space, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Sinful, Trauma, Trial, Uncategorized, Unpeel skin, Victim Blaming, Violation, Warped -
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
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
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 -
Fluctulation
Fluctulation is a poetic form written for National Poetry Day, 2018 around the subject of change. Fluctuation When I am up I am alive Answer every question, phone call, email Positive moves forward I strive Bounce and jump, free I sail When I am down I hide away Into bed, into covers, I crawl Unpeel…
Alison Little
Anxiety, Art, Bi Polar, Casual Sex, Cigarettes, Degrading, Depression, Disorder, Durex, Failing, Fatigue, Leisure time, Mental Health, Mood Swings, Narcotics, National Poetry Day, Nicotine, Painting, Poetry, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Rizzla, Self pity, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Sick, Sinful, Sleepless, Sobre, Social Roles, Suicide, Trauma, Uncategorized, Unpeel skin -
All the Fun of the Fair
Last week saw the ‘All the Fun of the Fair’ installation take over at Bold Place. This weeks blog shares the original fiction works which was the intial sourse point for the installation. All the Fun of the Fair She felt low down, sank down, fallen through into a space only six foot by two…
Alison Little
4th of July, Adverse Lifestyle, American Dream, Art, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, death, Degrading, Devil, Disorder, Domineering, End of Innocence, Evil, Failing, Fair Grounds, Lobster, Maine County, Male gaze, New England, New York City, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Sex, Sinful, Take away Lobster, Trauma, Uncategorized, Violation, Women’s Right -
A Letter to Fat Fiasol’ Mother
A Letter to Fat Fiasol’ Mother is a flash fiction piece from Alison Little. She created the prose as an exercise while writing her novel, Casual Nexus. The piece adopts the point of view of the main character of the narrative: Sal and is directed towards the Mother of an undercover Police Officer who failed…
Alison Little
Bi Sexual, Casual Sex, Chickens, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, Degrading, Delluded, Dildo, Disorder, Domineering, Fetish, fiction, Flash Fiction, Gay Porn, Impotency, Leg over, Leisure time, Lies, Male gaze, Manipulation, Mother, Police, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Same Sex Relationships, Semi-erect penis, Senior Police Officer, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sick, Sinful, Snakes, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Warped -
ED
ED Erectile Dysfunction ‘ED’ is the latest conceptual based sculpture from Alison Little identifying issues around impotence. In the works, she utilises similar techniques of constructing a polythene outer shell then simply ‘Stuffing’ the form with shredded paper. A concrete base is used to engage with a free standing frame, approximately 1 meter tall in…
Alison Little
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