Category: New York City

• 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

  February 22, 2019

  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

• 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

  August 10, 2018

  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

• 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…

  Alison Little

  August 3, 2018

  4th of July, Adverse Lifestyle, Alcoholism, American Dream, Art, Biennial, Biennial Independents, Bombed Out Church, Bottle Shop, Bums, Busweiser, Casual Sex, Celebration, Chains, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Chip Fork, Conceptual Art, Conflict, death, Decay, Degrading, Durex, End of Innocence, Evil, Fair Grounds, Fear, Feminist Art, fiction, Fine Art Textiles, Flash Fiction, Forks, Golden Sands, Hanging, Heroin, Homelessness, Hooks, Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial, Lobster, Maine County, Mental Health, Narcotics, New England, New York City, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Rizzla, Sandcastles, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Shief, Sick, Sinful, Sound City, St Luke’s, Take away Lobster, Uncategorized, Warped, Waste Product

• Kissed by Satan

  Kissed by Satan is a central chapter to the novel: Casual Nexus being written by Alison Little. This chapter looks at what happens to the central character Sal meets with a college friend to confide in what had occured early in the summer. The extract looks at when the two charcters meet up from there…

  Alison Little

  June 29, 2018

  American Dream, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, Devil, Domineering, fiction, Greasy Hair, Leisure time, Lobster, New York City, Old Clothes, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Satan, Uncategorized, Violation, Warped

• Virginia Woolf and the Hours

  The Hours Three Women, One day. Michael Cunningham’ novel, The Hours and the movie version, Directed by Stephen Daldry, gives a very accurate portrayal of Virginia Woolf beginning with her final act: suicide. The narrative intertwines the lives of three women: Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown an unhappy housewife in 1950’s Loss Angeles and Clarissa Vaughan…

  Alison Little

  January 12, 2018

  Affair, Aids, American Dream, Bi Sexual, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Family, Film, High School, House Wife, John Everett Millais, Lesbianism, Los Angeles, Mental Health, Morality, Mrs Dalloway, New York City, Pre Raphaelite, River Ouse, Same Sex Relationships, Servants, Sex, shcizophrenia, Social Roles, Suicide, Uncategorized, Virginia Woolf, Women’s Right