Category: Women’s Right

• Love of the Second Hand

  The book was beautifully bound, in impeccable condition and filled with the love of being read and enjoyed. Modern publishing of the classic ‘Arabian Nights’ I had the audio version, or what you used to call tapes when I had been a child. My brother and I had been passed them on from our cousin…

  Alison Little

  December 29, 2018

  Arabian Nights, Beauty, Charity, Christmas, Family, Female Icons, Feminists don’t wear Pink, fiction, Liverpool, Presents, Smithdown Road, Uncategorized, Vulva, Women’s Right

• Ensigns make a mark at the Museum

  Last Saturday saw a line of children and adults, tots and basically those mortal getting involved with the fun of flag making. The last weekend of the Liverpool Irish Festival took the Rags Boutique workshop to the contemporary interior to the Museum of Liverpool. A wonderful day spent with a colourful bag recycling project on…

  Alison Little

  November 3, 2018

  Art, Bio-degrade, Celebration, Eco warrior, Engagement, Family, Female Icons, Feminist Art, Liverpool, Recycle, Recycling, Red, Uncategorized, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• Sylvia Pankhurst

    The mural commission was proposed by Alison Little for the Trafford House in Manchester. Commission proposal Sylvia Pankhurst The mural design incorporates elements of Sylvia’s work and beliefs which represent a life which was truly courageous. Towards the lower section, we have the icon slogan ‘VOTES FOR WOMEN’ and the colour bands of green…

  Alison Little

  October 12, 2018

  Art, Birds, Casual Sex, Conflict, death, Eithiopia, Female Icons, Feminist Art, Gender Roles, Mural, Relationships, Sexual Freedom, Social Roles, Suffrage Movement, Trafford House, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• 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

• Sound City: Performs

  Alison Little, the artist and writer behind many North West based Arts and the creator of this very blog to perform a reading at this weekend’s Sound City. Sound City is the award-winning Metropolitan Festival set to take over Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle this weekend. The unequalled Festival presents an array of new music and the…

  Alison Little

  May 4, 2018

  accidents, American Dream, Art, Cains Brewery, Conceptual Art, Conflict, death, Decay, Devil, Evil, Failing, Fair Grounds, Installation, Liverpool, Lobster, Open Mic, Opera, Poetry, Rape and Sexual Violence, Sculpture, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Social Roles, Sound City, Textiles, The Unusual Art Sourcing Company, Uncategorized, Violation, Women’s Right

• Beauty is Truth

  Beauty is Truth is a flash fiction piece written in response to the famous line from John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn. Explicit content to be expected. The Sister in Law I look at her and I see no beauty. I see a woman haggard, prematurely aged and sinful in her ways. Fat encases…

  Alison Little

  April 20, 2018

  Affair, Beauty, Conflict, death, Family, Fanny Flaps, Fat encased, Female Icons, Germaine Geer, John Keates, Misshaped Bosom, Plus Size, Relationships, Sinful, Suffrage Movement, The Female Eunuch, Uncategorized, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• A-Z of Amazing Women

  A-Z of Amazing Women is the new range of prints from Alison Little. The main print takes us through a range of iconic women alphabetically, these are combined with a range of prints of individual women with short statements. She Talks us through why she selected the women for the new range: Anne Frank   …

  Alison Little

  April 6, 2018

  Alphabet, American Dream, Ariana Grande, Art, Celebrity Culture, Child Star, Devil, Family, Female Icons, Feminist Art, fiction, Film, Liverpool, Prints, Suffrage Movement, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• 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…

  Alison Little

  March 9, 2018

  Art, Bombed Out Church, Casual Sex, Chains, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conceptual Art, Evil, Fear, Feminist Art, Fine Art Textiles, Hanging, Hooks, Installation, Liverpool, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Sculpture, Sex, Sexual Parteners, St Luke’s, Suicide, Textiles, Uncategorized, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• Artist Talk: The Female Suspension

  The Female suspension is an installation which addresses a world of sexual violence. The lower bodies and limbs of numerous women who have been raped are suspended by chained, hooks penetrating their groins. Meat like, a waste product, violated then disposed of like an animal carcass meat still to be stripped from the bones. This…

  Alison Little

  February 23, 2018

  Art, Casual Sex, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conceptual Art, death, Evil, Failing, Fear, Feminist Art, Fine Art Textiles, Hanging, Installation, Leg over, Leisure time, Liverpool, Male gaze, Mental Health, Morality, Prostitution, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Same Sex Relationships, Sculpture, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Stalker, Suicide, Terror Attack, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• 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