Author Archives: John B Ledger

Touching on the symbolic; visiting a place to try to help put a closure on a stage of my life

My recent move to London was much needed for disparate reasons, but more than any, because the course my life has taken during the past 10-12 years has served its time, and has run out of energy. As I say in the previous post, life is just a series of shimmies away from the pits/totalContinue reading “Touching on the symbolic; visiting a place to try to help put a closure on a stage of my life”

Drawing in situ at P A N D E M I C York

I took part in York this weekend just gone.  P A N D E M I C, inspired by the Situationist movement (notably the philosopher Guy Debord, who wrote Society of the Spectacle), invites anybody to come along, to perform, discuss, or whatever they feel they want to do. But it is also an environmentContinue reading “Drawing in situ at P A N D E M I C York”

Borderline Ballardian

Group art exhibition Curated by Globalsapiens C.A.D.S. – 7 Smithfield, Sheffield Date: Friday 6th July – 18th July 2012 Bordeline Ballardian is an exhibition of works that questions and observes British society and the psychological effects of technological, social and environmental developments.The word ‘Ballardian’ originates from the works of British novelist, James Graham Ballard andContinue reading “Borderline Ballardian”

The Mary Rose: we are sinking (installation)

 “The (Diamond) jubilee has made the union jack more unavoidable than perhaps any time since the war” Owen Hatherley   This installation was for the exhibition Borderline Ballardian, at Creative Arts Development Space, Sheffield. When thinking about the proximity of dystopian forewarnings to the present tense the visuals of fabricated national pride featured very frequently, as aContinue reading “The Mary Rose: we are sinking (installation)”

Borderline Ballardian

 Open night Friday 6th July 2012 @ 6pm onwards with live poetry and discussion!Creative Arts Development Space 7 Smithfield, St Vincents, Shalesmoor, S3 7AR Sheffield, United Kingdom “It is the psychological effects of technological, social and environmental developments I am interested in.” JG Ballard To question the environment around us, to take a step backContinue reading “Borderline Ballardian”

Daft Punk, Discovery: late dreams of a capitalist hyperreal utopia

About half a year ago I wrote about how two different albums by the band Primal Scream ‘are actually the same record, just flip-sides’ (or more like the contents of the first album had been brutally emptied out creating a nightmarish inversion that guided the second album). However, when it was written the first albumContinue reading “Daft Punk, Discovery: late dreams of a capitalist hyperreal utopia”

Exhibition in Austria

New International Art Exhibition with works by Jann Haworth, Saskia de Boer, Liz Atkin, Kevin Harrison, Virgilius Moldovan, Alun Jury, Alan Russell-Cowan, John Ledger. Opening Sunday 13th May from 1500 Uhr. Continues till June 24thNicholas Treadwell GalleryKirchengasse 4;  A – 4160   AIGEN;  AUSTRIA; Tel: +43 (0) 7281 20000 or Mobile: +43 (0)664 3449543http://www.superhumanism.eu/  We AreContinue reading “Exhibition in Austria”

A REVIEW OF MY ART@ HEARTBEAT GALLERY: Nick Birkhead

http://heartbeatgallery.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/john-ledger-cycle-of-destruction-dating.html By Nick Birkhead I suggest that Ledger’s work owes something to the fantastical Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). Specifically, the Garden of Earthly Delights comes to mind, with its lush depiction of organic sin. The world famous and brilliant forerunner of surrealism was, in his day, unique and radically different. Today Bosch’s work could not beContinue reading “A REVIEW OF MY ART@ HEARTBEAT GALLERY: Nick Birkhead”