I’ve never much gone into WHY I use this mask for spoken word pieces. Well, in the most simplistic way, once I put on this mask, I now feel comfortable speaking what I speak. I escape a lot of shitty feelings about my facial expressions; I was made aware at a young age that IContinue reading ““Reset – Back to normal”, live performance at Reset the System Manchester”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
NT7 2002 (I became ‘this’ artist)
Roughly 20 years to the day there was a news story that basically changed the way I saw the world. It was a story about an asteroid, that was given the name ‘2002 nt7’, being on a potential collision course with the earth. Bizarelly this was reported on the BBC children’s new program ‘Newsround’, with theContinue reading “NT7 2002 (I became ‘this’ artist)”
Wall, I – full song list
Wall I was a film I made 3 years ago (biggest project I’ve ever undertaken, so far….). It was long mediated over the fact that once I had the time to make it, it would be scripted to songs, something I’d stopped doing years before. With the help of my friend Lee Garforth (formerly ofContinue reading “Wall, I – full song list”
‘The Spectre’; an avatar for a specifically ‘English trauma’.
This character became an avatar that I would embody to work through societal trauma with my own experiences implicated at the centre. He (it) began its life in a drawing from 2017, called Dead Ethics Hysteria. And then reappeared as one of the ‘6 horsemen for a bad memory for tomorrow’, in brown prohibition paperContinue reading “‘The Spectre’; an avatar for a specifically ‘English trauma’.”
A Radical Redemption, video walk through
If you can tolerate my broken sentences, I’ve made an off the cuff walk through video of the exhibition.
A Radical Redemption @Bloc Projects
From what began as a good opportunity to exhibit at a decent gallery in the region, A Radical Redemption became a meticulously obsessed-over project. Having had to initially cancel, when things got a little too much, I got a new opportunity for the exhibition to go ahead in the May 2022. I’ve been producing workContinue reading “A Radical Redemption @Bloc Projects”
A Radical Redemption, new dates
I’m really glad to say that my ‘A Radical Redemption’ at Bloc Projects, Sheffield, a show I felt I had to cancel in January, is happening again; now with the dates 21 – 28 May. Thanks so much to everybody who participated to some of the earlier stages of this project, I’m pleased to sayContinue reading “A Radical Redemption, new dates”
‘All those promises…’ (new work)
‘All those promises…’ (2022, mixed media on paper). This is the most recent work that will feature in my upcoming exhibition, more details of which coming up shortly. Thanks.
PLEASE FORGIVE MY 3AM NAIVETY
“please forgive my 3am naivety” (2022 mix of analogue and digital media). I’m aware that even the attempt to make work of this far more direct nature makes it susceptible to the trap of representing a ‘protest aesthetic’ and thus potentially condemned to stylised impotency. I’m aware that making work like this makes ME lookContinue reading “PLEASE FORGIVE MY 3AM NAIVETY”
Reflections on ‘A Private Civil War’
First off I’ll start with a bit of good news; the exhibition I felt I had to cancel at the beginning of the year, is now back on, and scheduled for the coming months (I will post exact date). I tend to throw the kitchen sink (metaphorically speaking) at exhibitions. This is because even thoughContinue reading “Reflections on ‘A Private Civil War’”
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