Author Archives: John B Ledger

Our exhibition will be part of a Global ‘VIGIL’ organised by 350.org

AS PART OF OUR ‘TUNNEL VISION TO COPENHAGEN EXHIBITION’ WE ARE COMBINING OUR PRIVATE VIEWING EVENING WITH A MUCH LARGER AND GLOBAL EVENT. WWW.350.ORG HAS ORGANIZED A GLOBAL CANDLE LIT VIGIL, WHERE PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD UNITE TO BRING TOGETHER THEIR DEMANDS FOR RAPID AND DRASTIC ACTION ON CUTTING EMISSIONS AND SLOWING CLIMATE CHANGE.350.ORG isContinue reading “Our exhibition will be part of a Global ‘VIGIL’ organised by 350.org”

Truth and Tribute – exhibition photos

TRUTH AND TRIBUTE – CURRENTLY STILL SHOWING AT HIVE GALLERY, ELSECAR HERITAGE CENTRE, BARNSLEY. 19TH NOVEMBER TO 13TH DECEMBER. OPEN 12-4PM THURSDAY TO SUNDAY Works by John Ledger – the exhibition’s ‘man made’ representative. Wall inspired work. (10 years since construction of own perpetual walls, 20 years since fall of Berlin Wall, 30 years sinceContinue reading “Truth and Tribute – exhibition photos”

Solitary trip to the capital

On the London underground… How can anyone be fully conscious and aware? in a city the size of London?; one moves so fast that it is virtually impossible to do so. There’s no long gaps between the trams, no places devoid of advertisements or ‘people a plenty’ (both of which require one to compare his/herContinue reading “Solitary trip to the capital”

“The Show Must Go on!”

“The Show Must Go On!”, 120X80cm, biro on paper “We must get capitalism back on track! The show must go on!” Who is saying this? Whenever ‘growth’ is mentioned, in talk about when this recession will lift, it is seen as an absolute good. However, economic growth means growth in construction and expansion. Expansion needsContinue reading ““The Show Must Go on!””

The Alpha Forest

Artwork currently being displayed as part of ‘Emergence’ an exhibition in Barnsley Town Centre, until 5 September 2009 The Alpha Forest (2009, mixed media) The ‘Alpha Forest’ is a global hegemony, anything different living in the forest, anything not following the route, cannot survive. All the hands point up competing to be the best, theContinue reading “The Alpha Forest”

Global Pillage

 Global Pillage, ballpoint pen on paper, 70X115cm This is the Easter Island Catastrophe but on a global scale. Each Nation eating up its own land and resources, connected by a hegemonic paradigm – perpetuated to the masses through global communication, yet disconnected through increasingly nationalistic and far right politics, caused as conflict begins to riseContinue reading “Global Pillage”