(A writing for the Retro Bar at The End of The Universe Collective) Apparently Generation Y arrived in January 1984. This means my sense of stuckness could be down being born in a generational hinterland. Actually no: we are all stuck, stuck in the deep mud between the end of something and something….something else, thatContinue reading “Now That’s what I Call Capitalism 2016”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
Hope of The Nihilized
(2016, mixed media on paper, 90X125cm) This will probably be the last major piece of work I finish in 2016. The drawing attempts to look at the debased spirit of our times. If I were to give such a time a name I’d called it The Zeitgeist of Disbelief.
Stories From Time-locked Space. 3
Free-fall in Stasis (Barnsley, The First Week of Winter, 2016) Walking back to the suburbs through an M1 junction-hinterland in the dark of a new winter. But nothing feels new. It’s late 2016. To Ride The Fine Line of Purpose on Placebos… …that’s what I achieved ten years ago this winter month. And I’ve even tried listeningContinue reading “Stories From Time-locked Space. 3”
Century P.T.S.D.
(2016, A3, mixed media on paper)
Stories From Time-Locked Space. 2 Illusions of ‘otherness’ – Over The Pennine Horizon Darton-to-Wakefield-to-Mirfield-to-Huddersfield-Manchester-to-Leeds-to-Darton (Northern Rail-to-Grand Central-to-Northern Rail-to-Transpennine Express-to Northern Rail. September 2016. “Today’s Manchester is dominated by the sounds of the trams. They beep, clunk and even scream as they turn on the tracks, in spaces so close to pavements you wonder how they allContinue reading
Fighting for Crumbs, at The World Transformed, Liverpool I was very pleased to be invited to exhibit at The World Transformed, a 4 day festival hosted by Momentum as The Labour Party held their conference, and the leadership election results were announced, in the very same city. It felt great to be taking our exhibition project ‘Fighting ForContinue reading
JD Taylor – Island Story: Journeys Through Unfamiliar Britain
I’ve finally finished reading JD Taylor’s brick of a book ‘Island Story: Journeys Through Unfamiliar Britain’ published by Repeater Books. Admittedly I missed most of the section on Scotland, due to a large pen leak defacing most of the section – but there again, being a visual artist, who carries everything he needs even whenContinue reading “JD Taylor – Island Story: Journeys Through Unfamiliar Britain”
(Stories From Time-locked Space. 1)
Leeds Under Pre-Digital Rain (2016). “Always a higher level of caution in your gait when arriving in Leeds on a Saturday – 52 times a year, not including Xmas and bank holidays – as if I’ve walked over a picket line for piss ups, which is far less unnerving if you have a designated pissContinue reading “(Stories From Time-locked Space. 1)”
Fighting for Crumbs (Art in the Shadow of Neoliberal Britain) – Video Documentary.
This is our video documentary, crafted and produced by Connor Matheson/DEADIDEA Productions. It accompanied our recent exhibition. Please take a look. Thank you for everybody who contributed to our crowdfunder earlier in the year.
Fighting For Crumbs – a Virtual Tour
We were all really pleased with how the works played off one another; a coherence of many preoccupations that made up the reasons for having this exhibition which addressed political pessimism, the age of disbelief, austerity and the overlooked areas of the UK. Whilst John Wilkinson’s paintings addressed the damage done both by once worker-hungryContinue reading “Fighting For Crumbs – a Virtual Tour”
John B Ledger 