Actions from another time If the so-called ‘age of austerity’ had begun by this point, I was only just able to taste it on my tongue. A claustrophobia (or an intensified version of what came previous) specific to this age ensued. And I hope I’ve already stressed on this blog how it feels that theContinue reading “Not For a Long Long Time”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
‘Soul Searching’ – exhibition
Although Dewsbury has always been a nearby town, the exhibition I was part of allowed me to discover parts to it I hadn’t seen before, as I climbed up the hill from the train station up to Crow Nest Park. I got a view that stretched back over to Woolley Edge, reminding me of theContinue reading “‘Soul Searching’ – exhibition”
This Land
“For there are brighter sides to life, and I should know because I’ve seen them, but not very often” (Still Ill, The Smiths) I wish the diagrams of carbon footprints and three-planets-consumption-rates would give up traveling through my mind in the form of guilt-trips right now, as I’ve only ever flown one other time inContinue reading “This Land”
Prisoners of Reason
I’ve received my copy of Prisoners of Reason: Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy Author: S. M. Amadae, which features my artwork ‘The Logic of Neoliberalism’, which I made back in 2010. I’m really pleased for my work to be part of this publication by S. M. Amadae and now look forward to reading it.Continue reading “Prisoners of Reason”
Tired of Life (“I Want To Leave Myself”)
Tired of Life (“I Want To Leave Myself”) 2016, ink on paper.
NoteToSelf (2016, A4, ink on paper)
The Internet is Making Me Ill…
Winter
I Just haven’t got the resistance to comfort-seeking I used to have in aid of achieving what I had to do. Every day 5 years back, at the back end of 2010, I would go down to my studio (Elsecar, South Yorks), straight after my job, 2 train stops or 2 bus rides from whereContinue reading “Winter”
Artwork for Wear Your Band T-shirt to Work Day
This is a rarity when it comes to my way of making work, but T-shirts are up for grabs featuring a piece of work Ive made for this Friday’s (27th November) gig at The Underground, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, as part of Wear Your Band T-shirt to Work Day. Gig info below… “This Friday live @Continue reading “Artwork for Wear Your Band T-shirt to Work Day”
The Big Smoke (And Mirrors): Stories From Forgotten Space
This is a spoken word/video version of notes and mapmaking from earlier in September this year, over the weekend the Labour election leadership was decided. It is part in a series of map-making’s of meanderings and musings that coincided with decisive events for the wider society in 2015. My thoughts on the past (my past),Continue reading “The Big Smoke (And Mirrors): Stories From Forgotten Space”
John B Ledger 