My recent show ‘A Eulogy for a Lost Decade’ in Doncaster, has been a really defining show for me. The exhibition brought together my film about identity, mental health, loneliness and other things in the Millennial generation (Wall, i) with a series of my drawings from over the past decade. I never realised that I was now looking at the end of a story, a life narrative, a sign to move on in life, to live a better life, with or without being an artist.
This means that the work that this recent and the first large scale drawing in over 2 years, ‘We want to live’ is not only a full stop and the end of all this work, it is now time to take heed. As the person I currently am, the ego ecosystem it sustains, I have said all I can say. The reason I made my film, which was very much about my own life, was because I realised I had reached a point where I had to move on, change. This exhibition has told me that there is no going back, whatever happens.
I have written more extensively about this here: “My resolution for this decade? I no longer want to be ‘John Ledger is an artist’” by John Ledger https://link.medium.com/EFKW0S4Sq3.
John B Ledger 