Category: Sculpture
-
Contemporary Art Smoothie
Process milk from Damien Hirst calf ensuring it is free from formaldehyde. Add some melon from Sarah Lucas’ Au Naturel, tell her to stop ‘Eating a Banana’ and combine to the fluid. Juice things up with some KY Jelly from Tracey Emin’ bed. Technique: turn everything inside out the way Rachel Whiteread did with ‘House’.…
-
Newton’ Cradle: Didsbury Arts Festival
A look at the proposal put forward to Didsbury Arts Festival 2019 from Alison Little: Didsbury Arts Festival 2019 Proposal Alison Little is a visual artist and writer based in Liverpool, she looks to combine her visual arts and creative writing practice. As an artist, she has worked on numerous commissions from Go Superlambanana’s to…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Eco Chamber
Eco Chamber is the latest sculptural commission from North West Based artist Alison Little. As part of the Liverpool Independents 2018 Biennial it will form part of the Rimrose Valley Country Park environment art trail. Concept: Eco Chamber is to be a form created solely from re-claimed materials, a large pod-like structure, fully spherical. The…
-
I am the Superlambanana
I am the Superlambanana I sit on the mantle-piece, brought in a drunken surge from the local bottle shop. Originally cast in China, a miniature of Liverpool finest public artworks. I stand on my plinth and I look around this room, I see the early morning starts, breakfasts followed by the waking of the dog…
-
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…
-
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…
alisonlittleblog 