Category: Painting

• Minted

  Minted, an exploration of Capitalism is the latest artworks from Liverpool based artist: Alison Little. ‘Minted’ stretches across the painting, reflecting wealth through the Scouse colloquialism. However, it is neither promotional of defamatory, objective towards the acquisition of wealth. The concept of the painting was conceived BC (Before Covid), it was worked on during the…

  Alison Little

  September 25, 2020

  Abstract Art, Acrylic Pouring techniques, Aristocracy, Art, Blur, Capitalism, dirty money, Minted, Painting

• Brit Pop Guitar

  The Brit Pop Guitar is a sensation: Visual arts meets music culture with the dynamism of the Nineties which we all love to remember. The iconic Union Jack which was imprinted on many of the bands of the era immerses within the surface of the guitar. A gritty rendition, presenting many blemishes, reflecting the disenchantment…

  Alison Little

  June 12, 2020

  Anorak, Art, Blur, Brit Pop, Britishness, Celebration, Celebrity Culture, City, Female Icons, Glastonbury, Guitar, Heroin, Jarvis Cocker, Narcotics, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Painting, Pulp, Revive, Richard Ashcroft, She’s Eclectic, The Verve, Uncategorized, Union Jack

• 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

  October 5, 2018

  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

• 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…

  Alison Little

  September 21, 2018

  Anxiety, Art, Biennial Independents, Captivity, Conceptual Art, Conflict, Depression, Film, Film Maker, Fine Art Textiles, Gender Roles, Installation, Liverpool Biennial, Male gaze, Mental Health, Painting, Rape and Sexual Violence, Suicide, Textiles, Trauma, Uncategorized, video art

• 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

• a Lesson in Pseudosciene

  A Lesson in Pseudoscience was the second design submitted by Alison Little for Bea in the City, the mass public art trail for Manchester, summer 2018. A lesson in Pseudoscience looks to present an image of a physics-based lecture where the science behind the flight of the bumblebee is explored. We look at concepts presented…

  Alison Little

  March 2, 2018

  Art, Auction, August Magnan, Bees, Bumble Bee, entomology, Flight, Manchester, Painting, Pseudoscience, Regeneration, Sculpture, Sculpture Trail, Uncategorized, wingspan

• Leslie shows us the Money

  Last week, Liverpool based artist Nigel Leslie talked us through how he had been selected as 1 of 100 important artists to decorate an old £5 note for a charity auction. Names already signed up include the Chapman Brothers, Gilbert and George, Gavin Turk, Liverpool’s iconic Peter Blake in addition to Cyrano Denn aka Danny…

  Alison Little

  February 16, 2018

  Abstract Art, Auction, £5 note, Charity, Currency, Damien Hirst, Damon Albarn, Gilbert and Sullivan, Graphic Art, Liverpool, Painting, Photography, The Chapman Brothers, Uncategorized

• Making an old £5 note count again

  Birkenhead based artist Nigel Leslie has been selected as 1 of 100 important artists to decorate an old £5 note for a charity auction. Names already signed up include the Chapman Brothers, Gilbert and George, Gavin Turk, Liverpool’s iconic Peter Blake in addition to Cyrano Denn aka Danny Crone. ‘Fivers for Artistic’ is a bright…

  Alison Little

  February 9, 2018

  Abstract Art, Art, Autism, £5 note, Birkenhead, Currency, Damien Hirst, Damon Albarn, death, Decay, Devil, Evil, Gilbert and Sullivan, Liverpool, Morality, Painting, The Chapman Brothers, Uncategorized

• Ariana Grande Bee

  Ariana Grande Bee is the design submitted for Bee in the city, the mass public art trail to take place in the summer of 2018 in Manchester. This design is one of two submitted by Artist Alison Little. Ariana Grande Bea is a tribute to the star Ariana Grande who took to the people Manchester…

  Alison Little

  February 2, 2018

  Ariana Grande, Art, Bees, Celebrity Culture, Funeral, Graphic Art, Manchester, Murals, Painting, Sculpture Trail, Terror Attack, Uncategorized

• Putting your Heads Together

  The latest exhibition: Speakers, created by Nicholas Party brought some much-needed colour to the December days. In entering the discretely fronted Oxford City centre Modern Art Gallery then making your way up to the first floor, then slipping into the Piper Gallery you encounter an array of colours. The walls are painted a yellow tone,…

  Alison Little

  December 8, 2017

  Art, Feminist Art, Installation, Leisure time, Modern Art Oxford, Murals, Oxford, Painting, Potraiture, Sculpture, Soundscape, Uncategorized