(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”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
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”
Personal summary of the 2010s: it’s time to learn to live
So here we are, at the end of the 2010s… Despite my ambivalence towards today being Christmas day (ambivalent to the point of having my heart and mind changed by future happenstance), dates have always held their symbolic sway. Perhaps, you could argue, too much. Nonetheless, we are about the leave the 2010s, and IContinue reading “Personal summary of the 2010s: it’s time to learn to live”
Upcoming exhibition: A eulogy for a ‘lost’ decade.
A eulogy for a ‘lost’ decade. The New Fringe, Doncaster. 11th January 2020. Hope of The Nihilized (2016) Through a series of carefully chosen works produced over the past ten years by the artist John Ledger, we are asked to reflect on the decade we have just passed through What was it? Did it evenContinue reading “Upcoming exhibition: A eulogy for a ‘lost’ decade.”
John B Ledger 