YOUR Freedom (95X125cm, mixed media on paper, 2016) ‘YOUR Freedom’ is my latest work, and will feature in the Wakefield Redshed part of the group show Fighting For Crumbs (Art in The Shadow of Neoliberal Britain). Fighting For Crumbs (Art in the Shadow of Neoliberal Britain) is a group of artists from Yorkshire working amidstContinue reading “YOUR Freedom (2016)”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
England’s Nervous Breakdown
Lost for words …not strictly, but they are wrapped up in a thick cloud of confusion and contradiction. But I’m putting out there EXACTLY how I’m feeling in the wake of last week’s referendum vote. Is this the nervous breakdown of a country? It’s becoming an unavoidable truth that what I’ve seen happening over theContinue reading “England’s Nervous Breakdown”
Under Digital Rain (in photos)
I am showing my work in Under Digital Rain, a show curated by John Wright, alongside artist Alexandra Gallagher’s Humanity’s Intellectual World, at Bowery Gallery in Headingley Leeds. Under Digital Rain is part of an ongoing project (dialogue?) between myself and John Wright called The Retro Bar at the End of Universe, and on theContinue reading “Under Digital Rain (in photos)”
The World Wide OneUpmanship
The World Wide One Upmanship (2016, 8x4FT mixed media on paper and card) This is a piece I made in response to being asked to make a site specific piece when in the initial stages of planning my current show at Bowery Gallery. The work is called The World Wide One Upmanship, and brings togetherContinue reading “The World Wide OneUpmanship”
A Deep Paralysis
(2016, A4, mixed media on paper)
Original work for ‘Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle’
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a no holds barred, explosive feature length documentary exploring the decline and deception behind the social housing crisis in Britain. It will be directed by Paul Sng, maker of the acclaimed cinema release Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain (2015) and the award winning film & television director LeeContinue reading “Original work for ‘Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle’”
Drainage System
(2016, A4, mixed media on paper)
Support Our Crowdfunder Campaign!
‘The Imposition of Conformity’ by Sheffield-based artist John Wilkinson So this year has begun with me working with a group of artists on an exciting project which, at least in my life, promises to be something quite special. Fighting For Crumbs (Art in Shadow of Neoliberal Britain) will be taking place at the Wakefield Redshed,Continue reading “Support Our Crowdfunder Campaign!”
The Capacity to Care
The Capacity to Care, 2016, A4, ink on paper At a time controversially close to the event itself, it was said that the 9/11 terror event was ‘the last shock of the new‘, as the world spent a week in perpetual shock as the media horror show was melted into our brains like napalm. 24/7Continue reading “The Capacity to Care”
The Redshed, Wakefield
Here is a selection of my works on display at the Redshed (the Wakefield Labour Club). Although these works are being taken down today, they were displayed as a ‘taster’ for a larger, quite exciting event, that I am involved in staging later in the year. So please stay tuned in as there will beContinue reading “The Redshed, Wakefield”
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