John B Ledger

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.”

Ignore your cynical sentiments, GE2019 is truly a chance to overcome the politics of despair.

As the 2010s draw to a close, I am thinking of the late Mark Fisher. I first discovered his book ‘Capitalist Realism’ in the summer of 2010, and as I subsequently began to discover his many articles and essays kept upon his blog page Kpunk, it was like I’d opened a concealed crate inside ofContinue reading “Ignore your cynical sentiments, GE2019 is truly a chance to overcome the politics of despair.”

Punching above your weight (reflections on impostor syndrome)

I recently completed a dissertation at masters level. I recently made an art and music, film odyssey that has received great feedback from nearly everyone who’s seen it. Interestingly both of these projects dealt with a lot personal experience loop of impostor syndrome: the feeling of never being good enough, whatever one has achieved isn’tContinue reading “Punching above your weight (reflections on impostor syndrome)”

“Not now, Jeremy, we’ve gotta get on the with show”

In recent years I have tried hard to stay away from the gut-driven urge to be an ideologue. Perhaps this is for reasons I am about to go into. However, what I see being offered by the UK Labour Party is more like the kind of opportunity offered by a counsellor; not a rigid doctrine,Continue reading ““Not now, Jeremy, we’ve gotta get on the with show””