These are photographs from the preview of Back to Normalism, my most recent exhibition, which included a spoken word/sonic performance collaboration with myself and Adam Denton. Thanks to Mark Tighe for taking these pictures, which I feel perfectly capture the shows essence. Also, I did this quite lengthy interview for Charles Hutchinson press prior toContinue reading “photos from preview of ‘Back to Normalism’”
Category Archives: Drawings
Horrorsterity 2.0
Apologies for sharing this now. I know it’s not really in tune with the spirit. But I find that my work tends to dictate the timeframe of its own making, and I’m really super proud of this work. Horrorsterity 2.0 will go into my upcoming solo exhibition ‘Back to Normalism’ at Micklegate Social and FossgateContinue reading “Horrorsterity 2.0”
2022 in art and life
First of all I’d to start by concluding that most people have found the last few years some of their hardest with little let up. I think I may have said before, COVID 19 has merely been a catalyst for the spiralling and emergence of so many things that we just cannot easily identify asContinue reading “2022 in art and life”
“20 Years from now”, 15 years ago
“20 years from now, I’ll make it somehow…” was a work I made 15 years ago (Nov 2007), at the very beginning of my exhibiting life. I originally made it for a then popular local pub/gig venue. Naive work, no doubt; an expression of surviving in a world where ecological and political situations were expectedContinue reading ““20 Years from now”, 15 years ago”
‘Back to Normalism’
This is ‘Back to Normal-ism’. A drawing that will take will be at the forefront of a show of the same title in the new year. I have created a video about the work, which you can find below. Video talk through of ‘Back To Normalism’
A Radical Redemption @Bloc Projects
From what began as a good opportunity to exhibit at a decent gallery in the region, A Radical Redemption became a meticulously obsessed-over project. Having had to initially cancel, when things got a little too much, I got a new opportunity for the exhibition to go ahead in the May 2022. I’ve been producing workContinue reading “A Radical Redemption @Bloc Projects”
‘All those promises…’ (new work)
‘All those promises…’ (2022, mixed media on paper). This is the most recent work that will feature in my upcoming exhibition, more details of which coming up shortly. Thanks.
PLEASE FORGIVE MY 3AM NAIVETY
“please forgive my 3am naivety” (2022 mix of analogue and digital media). I’m aware that even the attempt to make work of this far more direct nature makes it susceptible to the trap of representing a ‘protest aesthetic’ and thus potentially condemned to stylised impotency. I’m aware that making work like this makes ME lookContinue reading “PLEASE FORGIVE MY 3AM NAIVETY”
Burn(out)
kept a low profile of late, began working on a series of smaller drawings, that became a project about ‘burnout’. It’s a word that’s more and more frequently used these days, it’s a word I’ve used recently about myself, and it relates to so many things such as the body, mental and emotional exhaustion, tryingContinue reading “Burn(out)”
2021 IN ART
I admittedly don’t use this blog as much as I used to. 10 years ago it was an ongoing projection of political and philosophical and personal wranglings. This was at the very precipice of a decade that wouldn’t only come to be defined by our immersion into the social media feeds, but also in howContinue reading “2021 IN ART”
John B Ledger 