Next Saturday I’ll be exhibiting new, old and re-imagined work for the exhibition ‘Digging Deep – 40 years on since the Miners Strike’, which will be held at @artbombuk , Unitarian, 60 Hallgate, Doncaster. Opening event, Saturday 2nd March 1 – 6 PM, exhibition till 21st April 2024. Art, Conversation, Music, Film. A special eventContinue reading “Digging Deep – 40 years on since the Miners’ Strike’”
Category Archives: exhibitions
The Mental Health Strike ’24
On 6 March 2024 the world’s first Mental Health Strike brought normal life to a near-total stand-still. One after another, people from many walks of life bridged the deep social divides, by publicly declaring that they could no longer maintain good mental health under contemporary work/life conditions. The Mental Health Strike initially began as aContinue reading “The Mental Health Strike ’24”
Turning 40 (a list of things I’m most proud about from the last 20 years)
I’m 40 years old in roughly 20 days. When it comes to a life lived through formalities, and rites of passage, there has been no life to speak of. Forgive me if this sounds like wallowing, it’s because Xmas time is really genuinely hard at the best of times. Seeing photos of couples, or familiesContinue reading “Turning 40 (a list of things I’m most proud about from the last 20 years)”
photos from preview of ‘Back to Normalism’
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’”
Back to Normalism opening at Micklegate Social
Thank you to everybody who came to see the opening of Back To Normalism @micklegatesocial in York on Friday 13th. Thanks to @stubbs_mike @wdus.art for making it happen. The opening was centred around a collaborative performance with @zonal_markings which helped create something really special, which resonated with the ghostly sculptural forms which, like all ghosts, have since disappeared. But the drawingsContinue reading “Back to Normalism opening at Micklegate Social”
‘Back To Normalism’
Apologies for posting this so soon after xmas, but this show is also very soon. This time, however, there’s much more time to see the work: Back to Normalism will be held at both Micklegate Social and Fossgate Social in York from Friday 13th of January to 13th of March 2023. “Back to Normalism”, aContinue reading “‘Back To Normalism’”
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”
Reflections on aspects of A Radical Redemption
I took this post down from my social media account, as the act of sharing this specific sort of work, at that point, was more a reflection of certain self-destructive aspects that bubble up when I feel like I’m drowning in harmful emotions. The work was called ‘Monster’, and was an installation within my mostContinue reading “Reflections on aspects of A Radical Redemption”
“Reset – Back to normal”, live performance at Reset the System Manchester
I’ve never much gone into WHY I use this mask for spoken word pieces. Well, in the most simplistic way, once I put on this mask, I now feel comfortable speaking what I speak. I escape a lot of shitty feelings about my facial expressions; I was made aware at a young age that IContinue reading ““Reset – Back to normal”, live performance at Reset the System Manchester”
A Radical Redemption, video walk through
If you can tolerate my broken sentences, I’ve made an off the cuff walk through video of the exhibition.
John B Ledger 