‘Achieving While Rome Burns’ John Ledger The Little Known Gallery, Barnsley. The exhibition has been inspired by one of the many unrealised projects pitched for the artist collective ‘the Retro Bar at the End of the Universe’ – this one in particular built on the theorist Byun Chul Han’s argument that in last few decadesContinue reading “Achieving while Rome burns”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
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What was your first ever videogame? View all responses My parents didn’t have much money in the late 80s/ very early 90s, so we could only borrow the very basic Atari console from friends. I can’t even recall what game I liked, only that I definitely use to play it. In 1991/1992, before we hadContinue reading
What’s something you’ve done that you never thought you could? View all responses When I was 21 I began writing my first ever songs. Before this point I’d put down words, lyrics, and unfriendly chords, and believed songwriting was a magic I’d never reach. By 2008 I was writing songs for fun. And although thisContinue reading
20 Years of work
‘Locked inside The Maddening House’
‘Locked inside The Maddening House’ (2026, mixed media on paper, 190x190cm) It’s hard not to confuse the sense of life’s potentialities afforded to your younger self with those experienced by a wider collective at the same moment… For myself, not so long ago, the online communicative space appeared to contain an open-ended if volatile dynamic,Continue reading “‘Locked inside The Maddening House’”
42 years of not trying hard enough (to be normal)
By the end of next week I will know the conclusion of an assesment for a diagnosis. The amount of little wars I’ve reactivated on myself from years of accumulating theories of doing life wrong. Many have accused me of having a victim mentality, and there is some evidence. Yet it was and has beenContinue reading “42 years of not trying hard enough (to be normal)”
The Final Battleground of Thatcherism
“The Final Battleground of Thatcherism” (160x100cm) It’s been a very long time, recalibrating after a personal milestone of an exhibition. Reconsidering what affect art in an age where image bombardment has the same impact as a climatic shift. But also realise you must keep going. This work’s title came from one of my last conversationsContinue reading “The Final Battleground of Thatcherism”
NEVER BULLY ANYONE. …and if you feel drawn in. If you feel that desire to get ‘one over’ someone in a more vulnerable position to you, stop and walk away! I was sat on the 20:45 bus home this evening. The warmth in the UK atm is wierd (weird but also worringly the new normal)Continue reading
