Author Archives: John B Ledger

Recent mapmaking. (2014 so far, through maps)

I’ve begun including a few photographs within my (what I still reluctantly call -as I’ve not found a better word for them yet) psychogeographical maps. 13th May 2012 “Street Art-clad entrance into Victorian storm tunnels, before they descend under central Leeds. Perhaps the element of urban decay is what prompts us to talk about theContinue reading “Recent mapmaking. (2014 so far, through maps)”

Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record (performance)

Interruption encouragement! Artists intervention at Leeds Art Gallery this Friday (18th July) from 1-2pm. Artist John Wright and I will be performing a philosophical debate. Visitors are encouraged to interrupt. Here’s a piece of writing I have made regarding my take on the performance Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record: Non-Stop Inertia is a performance pieceContinue reading “Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record (performance)”

Five Years Drowning (exhibition @ Chapel Walk, Sheffield)

…Attempting a cognitive mapping of chaos…speeding of information causing its very disintegration…a proliferation of incomprehension…a deluge of auto-suggestions against the panic attacks of rare clear perception…being brayed between mumbo-jumbo-unreality and the biggest ever threats to humanity…underneath it all an cracking of skin and an aging of bones #CanIHaveSomeTimeAlone? Five Years Drowning. The exhibition runs untilContinue reading “Five Years Drowning (exhibition @ Chapel Walk, Sheffield)”

Pre-2008-Crash Time-Capsules

The Sad but necessary demolition of some older pieces of work. Although I wouldn’t really call these pieces of work sculpture – they were more accompaniments to my drawings, mounds rising up to slightly obscure the pieces I was showcasing/like a weight on a stressed chest that won’t go away (guilt of being part of/weddedContinue reading “Pre-2008-Crash Time-Capsules”

I’ve donated a large print of my drawing ‘I Want None of This’ to ‘Going Once, Going Twice, Gone!’, a fundraising event in aid of the Save Devonshire Street Campaign. When Sheffield Council approved demolition of 162-170 Devonshire Street, home to three of our most prized independent businesses, it didn’t follow the proper planning processes.Continue reading

Thurlstone Moor, May 2014 (John Ledger, Michael Hill – part of West Riding of Yorkshire: A Psychogeographical Account)

eaufitul emptiness: our (mild) equivalent to the US deserts, empty, barren, ‘lifeless, open space, where objects take on a monolithic presence. A place of long straight roads that exhaust a mind put into turmoil by the world down below. Some of these monolithic objects take on a lunar-like feel. The desert and the moon haveContinue reading “Thurlstone Moor, May 2014 (John Ledger, Michael Hill – part of West Riding of Yorkshire: A Psychogeographical Account)”

Just The Noise… solo exhibition

It’s been really good for me to get the main chunk of my work (with the exception of the installations from previous shows) into one big space. But it was especially good to show smaller works next to the larger ones, as I feel doing this helped map out the last 5 years quite well.Continue reading “Just The Noise… solo exhibition”