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”
Category Archives: Drawings
Making ‘The Alpha Forest’
So far this year I have spent some hours of every day developing ‘The Alpha Forest’. Here are some photographs of the progression
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”
CENTRAL BOMBARDMENT
Central bombardment (110x100cm, ink on paper)
Global Pillage
Global Pillage (110X70, ink on paper)
The Sprawl (2008)
This is probably one of the most ambitious drawing projects I have ever done. The drawing composition/idea arrived amidst an anxious rail journey, turning the anxiety into exhilaration, as it was just one of those ideas that I instantly felt worked. I decided the best way to make this drawing would be to make itContinue reading “The Sprawl (2008)”
John B Ledger 