Finally got around to getting these done! I’ve been trying to work out a way of making my work own able for years. I’ve always found selling originals problematic; not only does it sometimes seem counterproductive to sell something I have spent 3 months developing, and then have nothing to exhibit, it also doesn’t makeContinue reading “Limited edition map books”
Category Archives: Drawings
‘The Crucible of all our Traumas’
‘The Crucible of all our Traumas’Mixed media on paper. I decided it was best not to present this work with a formal ‘explanation’, as I’m hoping my next work will do the explaining. But I’m happy to discuss what it is about.Been pretty intense trying put this work together, I almost ripped it in halfContinue reading “‘The Crucible of all our Traumas’”
Self portrait during a culture war
(2020, mixed media on paper) ‘Self portrait during a culture war’. (mixed media on paper)’. In a sense I think I’m making this work for social media, for our over dependency on it during a time of restricted physical socialising, for the way it is shaping physical reality the more we rely on it. IContinue reading “Self portrait during a culture war”
Drawing feels relevant again
After using drawing as the main mode of expression for my art for well over 10 years, a couple of years ago I just stopped. I didn’t stop making art, so to speak, but it felt like drawing, my way of drawing, had not only run out of steam, but relevance. The reasons for thisContinue reading “Drawing feels relevant again”
All of Your Gods Are Pounding My Head
All of Your Gods Are Pounding My Head (2020, mixed media on paper) I’ve made another video introduction to this work. A work that I got into a real moral tangle about revealing right now, amidst current affairs.
‘Nausea’
Nausea’ (2020, mixed media on paper) Stylistically, this work could’ve been made 5 years ago, but I found it useful to return to certain ways of making right now…
A New spring has sprung
For the first time, probably due to the larger situation, I decided to make a video work about my latest piece of work. A New spring has sprung (mixed media on paper).
We Want to live
My recent show ‘A Eulogy for a Lost Decade’ in Doncaster, has been a really defining show for me. The exhibition brought together my film about identity, mental health, loneliness and other things in the Millennial generation (Wall, i) with a series of my drawings from over the past decade. I never realised that IContinue reading “We Want to live”
Works of 2017
I’ve gone back to study this year. After years of wrangling over whether to go back or not, I finally decided that I had nothing to lose by doing so. Additionally, it has enabled me to have a bit more thinking space, away from working 5 days a week. Because no matter what job youContinue reading “Works of 2017”
John B Ledger 