St Pancras to Kings Cross station Walking from St Pancras to Kings Cross, I’m eager not to keep John waiting in the train station bar, but also to not appear out of the sync with the pace of London. There is also an anxiety about ‘getting it right’, not missing another sailing ship. Coming toContinue reading “London, October: in search of meaningful rebeginning”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
Releasing my ‘Back to Normalism’ print series
Finally, I’ve developed my ‘Back to Normalism’ print series that I’ve been working on a while. ‘Back to Normalism’ is a series of works that speak of the post-pandemic world, culture, and are my best way of summing up the times we’re in. I am making available a limited number of 20 of each work,Continue reading “Releasing my ‘Back to Normalism’ print series”
Straight A’s book and album crowdfunder
This fundraiser brings together 3 things that mean a hell of a lot to me. Firstly, this is the first opportunity to put together a properly printed book that others can buy and read. The writing is milestone writing for me, it marks something. It is also that this book will mark an upcoming exhibitionContinue reading “Straight A’s book and album crowdfunder”
Straight A’s book AND album fundraiser
I have started a fundraiser for a book and album for my upcoming exhibition, and ongoing project ‘Straight A’s: Anxiety, Anorexia, Alcohol, Ageing and Art’. This project will be a milestone moment in my life as an artist. For this reason I am making a ‘Straight A’s’ book, which will both tell my story and display a selectionContinue reading “Straight A’s book AND album fundraiser”
‘I’m not human anymore’
‘I’m not human anymore’ (2024/25, mixed media on paper, 140x100cm) I am genuinely incredibly happy with this work. Yet, it feels tiny, no matter how big I made it and how shoulder injuries I get making it, the work feels smaller and smaller. My vision no longer has eyes, not in quite the same wayContinue reading “‘I’m not human anymore’”
Downer at the door
It’s creeping in again, it’s such a familiar pattern now. A few social interactions that left an unwelcome aftertaste, alongside too much repetition of habits you now fear will be written on your tombstone (if you get one), and the aftertaste begins to spread to all corners of your skull. Normal habit would be toContinue reading “Downer at the door”
Novara Media’s ‘2024, the year that ‘Woke’ died…’
So the reason I wanted to think about this on my blog, as opposed to writing about it on a social media feed is for how easy it is to fall fowl when using certain language on there. We all know that. Indeed this is exactly what Novara are discussing in their 2024 round-up. WokeContinue reading “Novara Media’s ‘2024, the year that ‘Woke’ died…’”
2025
What’s your favorite cartoon? I’m going to say Earthworm Jim I used to get up on school holidays in the UK in 1996 and watch it religiously. What I remember most fondly is it’s almost Monty Python-esq surrealism. most notably when the theme tune just randomly stopped, and we saw Jim snoring on a hammock,Continue reading
Artistic rites of passage
As I walk past someone my age, with their near-teenage offspring, I am thrown into a state of hasty self-evaluation. Before I know it I’m putting together emotional scaffolding from whatever I can recall – a random song I wrote 17 years ago, ot an obscure blog where I said something I thought was smart.Continue reading “Artistic rites of passage”
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