Category: Learning

• 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

• Will you be my Bride, McBride

  ‘Will you be my Bride, McBride’ is an extract from the latest chapter being written from the novel ‘Casual Nexus’ from Alison Little: Will you be my bride, McBride Jack was around his best friends house, Huxley McBride, they have finished school for the day. It was early September and they had just started in…

  Alison Little

  October 26, 2018

  Atari, Celebrity Culture, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, Conquering, End of Innocence, Flash Fiction, Gender Roles, Learning, Leg over, Leisure time, Male gaze, Mood Swings, Narcotics, Packman, Rape and Sexual Violence, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sinful, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Violation

• 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…

  Alison Little

  May 11, 2018

  Art, Captivity, Conceptual Art, Conflict, Crumlin Road, Failing, Flash Fiction, Hanging, Installation, Keys, Learning, Liverpool, Painting, Photography, Prison, Safe Space, Seventies, Soundscape, Trial, Uncategorized

• Grown Up Rug Rat

  These are the latest song lyrics being worked on from Alison Little Grown Up Rug Rat Saxon curls flow from my head Skin glows with innocent Beauty I sleep safely near the parental bead From birth, I have never been naughty   At twenty I have toddler style body actions Arms stretched up ahead of…

  Alison Little

  November 24, 2017

  Child Star, Family, fiction, Learning, Police, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Rug Rats, Senior Police Officer, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Uncategorized, Virginity

• Jane

  Jane, the sculptural form was exhibited for IN:VISIBLE women, full-day conference held at Liverpool Central Library on Friday the 27th October. Simply Jane was the accompanying fictional works read at the event, both were created by Alison Little in autumn 2017. The following piece was commissioned by the Liverpool Irish Festival, from artist Alison Little, as…

  Alison Little

  October 27, 2017

  Abortion, Art, Conceptual Art, Evil, Family, Fatigue, Feminist Art, Fine Art Textiles, Illegal Abortion, Learning, Leisure time, Liverpool, Mental Health, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Teenage Pregnancy, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• New Embroidery Course Announced

  Embroidery from Photography 4-week course running throughout November, Saturday 4/11/17-25/11/17 from 2-4pm situated at 1 Rose Lane Studios. Cost £12 per session. Session 1 Discussion around suitable subjects for embroidery piece, walk to Sefton Park to take a range of photographs, digital camera an advantage for participants but one will be available. Images downloaded and…

  Alison Little

  September 29, 2017

  Art, Course, Embroidery, Learning, Leisure time, Liverpool, Parks, Photography, Sefton Park, Uncategorized