Category: Eco warrior

• 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

• Rags, the Boutique does Southport

  Last Saturday saw the fun of Rags Boutique at Southport Festival. For the magic-themed festival we created an array of high standing wizard hats, a collection of mushroom masks. Black cats masqueraded and a troop of unicorns topped everything off. Alison Little started Rags Boutique workshops over a decade ago as part of Bold Street…

  Alison Little

  May 17, 2019

  Art, Blackpool, Eco warrior, Ethical, Family, Green Credentials, Leisure time, Liverpool, Rags Boutique, Recycle, Recycling, Regeneration, Renewal, Revive, Rubbish, Southport, Southport Festival, Uncategorized

• 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