This coming May Radiohead’s 3rd studio album Ok Computer turns 20. I’ll begin bluntly: its either the greatest record to come into my life, or the most important. If a certain cluster of Pink Floyd albums are normally seen within a similar light, aided by their shared university-town beginnings, then it is with OK Computer’sContinue reading “OK Computer at 20 VS the World in 2017”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
Mark Fisher – much more than a favourite writer
I’ll begin as humbly as I can. I’m a anxious character, who hasn’t quite yet figured out how to deal with criticism from others and the shame that often follows. This makes me uncomfortable paying respects to a writer who has inspired me as much as any other, aware of the gaping discrepancies in myContinue reading “Mark Fisher – much more than a favourite writer”
After The Sugar Rush
(2016, mixed media on paper) My last drawing of 2016. Literally finished at 11:20pm on December 31st.
Now That’s what I Call Capitalism 2016
(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”
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”
John B Ledger 