Thank you to everybody who came to see the opening of Back To Normalism @micklegatesocial in York on Friday 13th. Thanks to @stubbs_mike @wdus.art for making it happen. The opening was centred around a collaborative performance with @zonal_markings which helped create something really special, which resonated with the ghostly sculptural forms which, like all ghosts, have since disappeared. But the drawingsContinue reading “Back to Normalism opening at Micklegate Social”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
Pain resurfacing
I’m increasingly having feelings I had as a teenager, when I couldn’t do the things that helped me cope on a daily basis. When my legs were bad, because I’d run too much during that year, or the weather was just way too bad to go out, but I’d also eaten a full meal, andContinue reading “Pain resurfacing”
‘Back To Normalism’
Apologies for posting this so soon after xmas, but this show is also very soon. This time, however, there’s much more time to see the work: Back to Normalism will be held at both Micklegate Social and Fossgate Social in York from Friday 13th of January to 13th of March 2023. “Back to Normalism”, aContinue reading “‘Back To Normalism’”
Horrorsterity 2.0
Apologies for sharing this now. I know it’s not really in tune with the spirit. But I find that my work tends to dictate the timeframe of its own making, and I’m really super proud of this work. Horrorsterity 2.0 will go into my upcoming solo exhibition ‘Back to Normalism’ at Micklegate Social and FossgateContinue reading “Horrorsterity 2.0”
2022 in art and life
First of all I’d to start by concluding that most people have found the last few years some of their hardest with little let up. I think I may have said before, COVID 19 has merely been a catalyst for the spiralling and emergence of so many things that we just cannot easily identify asContinue reading “2022 in art and life”
Don’t scroll at Xmas – it will only make things worse
I’ve a long list of posts, which may or may not exist anymore, from way back into my 20s, documenting how hard I’ve found this time of year. Truth be told, as I reach my late 30s I I believe I am coming to understand myself better, or at least give myself more forgiveness forContinue reading “Don’t scroll at Xmas – it will only make things worse”
‘Columbusing in the UK’
When I worked as a front of house member of staff in a nearby art institution, we had a saying to describe certain visitors who would arrive from, let’s be fair, mainly London and South East: ‘Columbusing’. The males doing the ‘Columbusing’ would arrive towards the end of the day, and step into the gallery,Continue reading “‘Columbusing in the UK’”
The evolution of public transport ambience; the 2000s to 2020s
OK, I admit this is kind of about one of my pet hates. I really can’t stand phone noise on public transport. It’s kind of my problem; I struggle with noise. If there’s a interrupting kind of noise from the overall ambience on a train, for example, I’ll instantly be unable to stop waiting forContinue reading “The evolution of public transport ambience; the 2000s to 2020s”
“20 Years from now”, 15 years ago
“20 years from now, I’ll make it somehow…” was a work I made 15 years ago (Nov 2007), at the very beginning of my exhibiting life. I originally made it for a then popular local pub/gig venue. Naive work, no doubt; an expression of surviving in a world where ecological and political situations were expectedContinue reading ““20 Years from now”, 15 years ago”
I felt ‘Wrong’ for most of my life
Why do I feel so guilty for writing something which isn’t linked into with a more broader critique of society and political strucutres? As I do. But the guilt of not making a political statement can often make you write things you don’t even enjoy writing yourself. My next big venture may be a wayContinue reading “I felt ‘Wrong’ for most of my life”
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