Category: Installation
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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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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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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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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…
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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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Suspended: Bold Place
The Female Suspension The female suspension takes over 5 Bold Place until the 8th of April. The lower bodies were hooked through the groin and suspended from chains earlier in the week. In the shadows of the Bombed Out Church, Bold Place lies directly beside St Luke’s Church, Liverpool City Centre. The Female suspension is an…
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