Drawings – Page 3 – John B Ledger

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 I originally made it for a then popular local pub/gig venue.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”

Hipster Psychosis

‘Hipster Psychosis’ (2021, mixed media on paper) I’ve long seen my works as successive chapters in a book I can never complete, because it is lived in. Thus ‘Hipster Psychosis’ is the latest ‘chapter’. I think what has motivated this drawing more than anything is the ‘post lockdown’ ‘back to normal’ culture, which feels likeContinue reading “Hipster Psychosis”

‘Endure the Night of this World’

‘Endure the Night of this World’ (2021, mixed media on paper) ‘Endure the Night of this World’ (mixed media on paper, 2021). The first project I’ve really undertaken in 2021, apart from the overlapping ones from 2020, is carefully balanced on what could be seen as despair, but purposely pulls back from it – IContinue reading “‘Endure the Night of this World’”