John B Ledger

‘The Crucible of all our Traumas’

‘The Crucible of all our Traumas’Mixed media on paper. I decided it was best not to present this work with a formal ‘explanation’, as I’m hoping my next work will do the explaining. But I’m happy to discuss what it is about.Been pretty intense trying put this work together, I almost ripped it in halfContinue reading “‘The Crucible of all our Traumas’”

Self portrait during a culture war

(2020, mixed media on paper) ‘Self portrait during a culture war’. (mixed media on paper)’. In a sense I think I’m making this work for social media, for our over dependency on it during a time of restricted physical socialising, for the way it is shaping physical reality the more we rely on it. IContinue reading “Self portrait during a culture war”

Drawing feels relevant again

After using drawing as the main mode of expression for my art for well over 10 years, a couple of years ago I just stopped. I didn’t stop making art, so to speak, but it felt like drawing, my way of drawing, had not only run out of steam, but relevance. The reasons for thisContinue reading “Drawing feels relevant again”

All of Your Gods Are Pounding My Head

All of Your Gods Are Pounding My Head (2020, mixed media on paper) I’ve made another video introduction to this work. A work that I got into a real moral tangle about revealing right now, amidst current affairs.

Kraftwerk in the time of Covid 19

This may seem like a ‘stretch’, but I argue that renewed interest in the music of Kraftwerk, brought about by recent passing of co-founder Florian Schneider, makes for strange resonances and recollections in a world partially suspended by the outbreak of Covid 19. Now, I’m not usually one to share news of the death ofContinue reading “Kraftwerk in the time of Covid 19”

‘Nausea’

Nausea’ (2020, mixed media on paper) Stylistically, this work could’ve been made 5 years ago, but I found it useful to return to certain ways of making right now…

A New spring has sprung

For the first time, probably due to the larger situation, I decided to make a video work about my latest piece of work. A New spring has sprung (mixed media on paper).

Wall, i

Precursor: I developed ‘Wall, i’ as a film intended for exhibitions, and independent screenings, but was encouraged to make it accessible online. The work covers a series of complex contemporary issues, so whilst the film is available to share, I just politely ask people not to share clips of it out of context, as, outContinue reading “Wall, i”

We Want to live

My recent show ‘A Eulogy for a Lost Decade’ in Doncaster, has been a really defining show for me. The exhibition brought together my film about identity, mental health, loneliness and other things in the Millennial generation (Wall, i) with a series of my drawings from over the past decade. I never realised that IContinue reading “We Want to live”