14 years ago, I’d just turned 24 and left university. My art was, kind of, blossoming, and taking in many new approaches. As things progressed, the financial crash happened, and who knows how much these events change the course of our individual lives, but I feel it’s safe to say that I went one way,Continue reading “An overview of the last 14 years”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
“I’m sorry for what I’ve done”
Thanks for everybody’s help and support. A 2022 film by John Ledger and Jordan Blake.
2021 IN ART
I admittedly don’t use this blog as much as I used to. 10 years ago it was an ongoing projection of political and philosophical and personal wranglings. This was at the very precipice of a decade that wouldn’t only come to be defined by our immersion into the social media feeds, but also in howContinue reading “2021 IN ART”
Hipster Psychosis
‘Hipster Psychosis’ (2021, mixed media on paper) I’ve long seen my works as successive chapters in a book I can never complete, because it is lived in. Thus ‘Hipster Psychosis’ is the latest ‘chapter’. I think what has motivated this drawing more than anything is the ‘post lockdown’ ‘back to normal’ culture, which feels likeContinue reading “Hipster Psychosis”
Looking for The Exit (in solidarity)
New work published: ‘Looking for The Exit (in solidarity)’. . WARNING: WORK CONTAINS STRONG UNPLEASANT LANGUAGE AND UPSETTING REFERENCES. IN SOLIDARITY THO.Thanks
‘A Private Civil War’ (stories from the cult of self-belief)
‘A Private Civil War’ is my most recent work, and is a semi autobiographical monologue in relation to living in what I call a ‘cult of self-belief’. This work is more than anything about the crisis of knowing oneself in age that is perpetually telling us to be just that, our selves, but with attachedContinue reading “‘A Private Civil War’ (stories from the cult of self-belief)”
‘Compulsive Obedience’
New work:’Compulsive Obedience’ from my ‘stories from the cult of self-belief’ series. WARNING: It’s a potentially unpleasant and ‘triggering’ work. Just so you know, ok.
Census for Post-Covid Desire
>2021 CENSUS FOR POST-COVID DESIRE <- Excited about this new project with the artist-led collective ‘the Retro Bar at the End of the Universe’. I think all of our projects play around with the possibility of making a real-life impact, and also the possibility of finding a New common ground, amidst big societal divisions. PleaseContinue reading “Census for Post-Covid Desire”
‘Endure the Night of this World’
‘Endure the Night of this World’ (2021, mixed media on paper) ‘Endure the Night of this World’ (mixed media on paper, 2021). The first project I’ve really undertaken in 2021, apart from the overlapping ones from 2020, is carefully balanced on what could be seen as despair, but purposely pulls back from it – IContinue reading “‘Endure the Night of this World’”
‘After The Sugar Rush/Living Your Life’ – scenes from ‘Wall, i’ (2019)’
This was meant to be a Facebook post, so, now I’m no longer appealing to my imagined Facebook audience, but my imagined blog one, I apologise for the overtly ‘lol’ nature of this post. Maybe I should stop trying to appeal to everyone, but there again I am a condemned fool to the pursuit ofContinue reading “‘After The Sugar Rush/Living Your Life’ – scenes from ‘Wall, i’ (2019)’”
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