A hell of lot of water has passed under the bridge since a group show I was part of (Fighting For Crumbs: Art in The Shadow of Neoliberal Britain) was exhibited at the World Transformed event, at The World Transformed, in Liverpool in 2016. I started to think back as this year’s event occurs, asContinue reading “6 years since Fighting For Crumbs at The World Transformed.”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
‘Back to Normalism’
This is ‘Back to Normal-ism’. A drawing that will take will be at the forefront of a show of the same title in the new year. I have created a video about the work, which you can find below. Video talk through of ‘Back To Normalism’
Reflections on aspects of A Radical Redemption
I took this post down from my social media account, as the act of sharing this specific sort of work, at that point, was more a reflection of certain self-destructive aspects that bubble up when I feel like I’m drowning in harmful emotions. The work was called ‘Monster’, and was an installation within my mostContinue reading “Reflections on aspects of A Radical Redemption”
“Reset – Back to normal”, live performance at Reset the System Manchester
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”
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”
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