Don’t Look Back in Grandeur (title by DS Jarvis) was a videowork quickly thought up for the introductory section to the ‘exhibition space’ in ‘Will The Last Person To Leave The 20th Century Please Turn out The Lights?‘ – an event staged by the collective ‘the Retro Bar at the End of the Universe, inContinue reading “Don’t Look Back in Grandeur”
Category Archives: Exhibitions
Will The Last Person To Leave The 20th Century Please Turn out The Lights?
VIEW UPON REQUEST [see below for contact details]Monday July 3Tuesday July 4Wednesday July 5 OPENING EVENING AND INFORMAL SYMPOSIUMThursday July 6 | 6pm – 11pm Our collective The Retro Bar at the End of the Universe is currently staging an event and exhibition titled Will The Last Person To Leave The 20th Century Please TurnContinue reading “Will The Last Person To Leave The 20th Century Please Turn out The Lights?”
‘Will The Last Person To Leave The 20 Century Please Turn out The Lights?’
First and foremost for anybody who has never heard of Baildon (mainly people south of Wakefield), just think ‘2 miles north of the World Heritage Site, Saltaire. I’m really looking forward to this event. To be honest it’s our first proper outing as a collective. The Artists’ Bookfair at The Tetley Gallery in Leeds earlierContinue reading “‘Will The Last Person To Leave The 20 Century Please Turn out The Lights?’”
Fighting for Crumbs, at The World Transformed, Liverpool I was very pleased to be invited to exhibit at The World Transformed, a 4 day festival hosted by Momentum as The Labour Party held their conference, and the leadership election results were announced, in the very same city. It felt great to be taking our exhibition project ‘Fighting ForContinue reading
Fighting for Crumbs (Art in the Shadow of Neoliberal Britain) – Video Documentary.
This is our video documentary, crafted and produced by Connor Matheson/DEADIDEA Productions. It accompanied our recent exhibition. Please take a look. Thank you for everybody who contributed to our crowdfunder earlier in the year.
Fighting For Crumbs – a Virtual Tour
We were all really pleased with how the works played off one another; a coherence of many preoccupations that made up the reasons for having this exhibition which addressed political pessimism, the age of disbelief, austerity and the overlooked areas of the UK. Whilst John Wilkinson’s paintings addressed the damage done both by once worker-hungryContinue reading “Fighting For Crumbs – a Virtual Tour”
Fighting For Crumbs…
I’ve been involved in setting this project up for the best part of a year… Over the past few years or so I have found a few people who were agreeing with my growing sentiment: That the mood and spirit of this society (global too) was in a deep depression, and that this had toContinue reading “Fighting For Crumbs…”
Under Digital Rain (in photos)
I am showing my work in Under Digital Rain, a show curated by John Wright, alongside artist Alexandra Gallagher’s Humanity’s Intellectual World, at Bowery Gallery in Headingley Leeds. Under Digital Rain is part of an ongoing project (dialogue?) between myself and John Wright called The Retro Bar at the End of Universe, and on theContinue reading “Under Digital Rain (in photos)”
The Redshed, Wakefield
Here is a selection of my works on display at the Redshed (the Wakefield Labour Club). Although these works are being taken down today, they were displayed as a ‘taster’ for a larger, quite exciting event, that I am involved in staging later in the year. So please stay tuned in as there will beContinue reading “The Redshed, Wakefield”
‘Soul Searching’ – exhibition
Although Dewsbury has always been a nearby town, the exhibition I was part of allowed me to discover parts to it I hadn’t seen before, as I climbed up the hill from the train station up to Crow Nest Park. I got a view that stretched back over to Woolley Edge, reminding me of theContinue reading “‘Soul Searching’ – exhibition”
John B Ledger 