Author Archives: John B Ledger

Nothing New under Digital Rain

One hand on a remote Control, a joystick, a keyboard,  a touchscreen, itching with a need to turn over stones. Nothing ever matches up, but I feel so wired up that the urge to carry on searching wins every time. To begin I have to talk about how uncomfortable my disinterest in a recent discoveryContinue reading “Nothing New under Digital Rain”

Affects of Austerity Exhibition

My work is featured in Driftmine’s ongoing online exhibition ‘Affects of Austerity’. With the aim of expanding the exhibition to the point of physically showing it at some near future point.  Over the summer and throughout September, Driftmine had an open call for submissions to it’s Affects of Austerity #AusterityAffects exhibition. No, it wasn’t aContinue reading “Affects of Austerity Exhibition”

Manchester (Stories From Forgotten Space)

24 September 2015 “Michael picks me up early on and we head over to Ossett, a small town sandwiched between Wakefield and Dewsbury; a ligament in the West Yorks conurbation of towns. On the car radio a program speaks of French Electronica, such as the likes of Air – of whom a sample is played.Continue reading “Manchester (Stories From Forgotten Space)”

Somewhere In Yorks… (Stories from Forgotten Space)

“In the village I was raised in, a distant cousin stands across the road, noticeable by the high-vis jacket he’s wearing. Not sure why he’s stood that side of the road, as by crossing that road you literally leave the mining-settlement-overspill I know as home, to face the farmhouses and barns that predate that former,Continue reading “Somewhere In Yorks… (Stories from Forgotten Space)”

Strange Bedfellows

This Friday (2 October) will see the opening event for the Barnsley town centre-based exhibition Strange Bedfellows, consisting of myself, and four very talented artists Terry Brookes, Rory Garforth, Rob Nunns and Elizabeth Sinkova. Here are some photographs of the exhibition after we set it up yesterday. PLEASE COME. Contemporary Gallery, 2-4 The Arcade, BarnsleyContinue reading “Strange Bedfellows”

Short Reflections on ‘Noises From The Wilderness’

Thanks a lot to SW1-Hunter, Gav Roberts, Liz Ferrets and Kevin Titterton for playing at our exhibition last night. I’m not one for overstating things, but the atmosphere there last night was truly something special, with the sounds/words and paintings/drawings all playing off one another. There were certain points in the poet’s’ most pleading momentsContinue reading “Short Reflections on ‘Noises From The Wilderness’”

Reflections on Voices From The Wilderness

Thanks to everybody who came down last night to my and John Wilkinson’s opening of our exhibition Voices From The Wilderness. We both felt it was well attended, and the evening was full of conversations engaging in the subject of the works, and how and why and John Wilkinson’s works potentially work well together. (TheContinue reading “Reflections on Voices From The Wilderness”

The Big Smoke (and mirrors): Stories From Forgotten Space

“I’ve been approaching Leeds by train for years now (for the best part of the lost-decade, starting 2008), and it is the wastelands (especially the unappropriatable bits) that are its saving grace. It says something that the boring central zone obliterates. I change trains towards Manchester, sitting backwards as the train leaves Leeds. Dead feelingsContinue reading “The Big Smoke (and mirrors): Stories From Forgotten Space”