“The (Diamond) jubilee has made the union jack more unavoidable than perhaps any time since the war” Owen Hatherley This installation was for the exhibition Borderline Ballardian, at Creative Arts Development Space, Sheffield. When thinking about the proximity of dystopian forewarnings to the present tense the visuals of fabricated national pride featured very frequently, as aContinue reading “The Mary Rose: we are sinking (installation)”
Category Archives: Projects
Green Graffiti: Junction 38 tree still going strong
My ‘Green Graffiti’ oak tree tree, planted on the island at junction 38 of the M1 (at the border between South and West Yorkshire), is still going strong. After every council grass cutting, i nervously look around the corner of the roundabout hoping that they have left it be. and, yes: so far they haveContinue reading “Green Graffiti: Junction 38 tree still going strong”
Making ‘The Alpha Forest’
So far this year I have spent some hours of every day developing ‘The Alpha Forest’. Here are some photographs of the progression
The Sprawl (2008)
This is probably one of the most ambitious drawing projects I have ever done. The drawing composition/idea arrived amidst an anxious rail journey, turning the anxiety into exhilaration, as it was just one of those ideas that I instantly felt worked. I decided the best way to make this drawing would be to make itContinue reading “The Sprawl (2008)”
John B Ledger 