‘Truth and Tribute’ joint-solo show with Bradley Sharp, 2009, Hive Gallery, Barnsley
Artist C.V:
Exhibitions
Solo/Joint Exhibitions:
2023 ‘Back to Normalism’, Micklegate Social and Fossgate Social, York.
2022 ‘A Radical Redemption’, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
2020 ‘A eulogy for a ‘lost’ decade’, The New Fringe, Doncaster.
2016 ‘Under Digital Rain‘ (Curated by John Wright), The Bowery, Headingley, Leeds.
2015 ‘Voices From The Wilderness‘ (with John Wilkinson), Gage Gallery, KIAC, Sheffield.
2014 ‘Five Years Drowning‘, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield.
2014 ‘Just The Noise…’ , Kelham Island Art Collective/Gage Gallery, Sheffield.
2012 John Ledger and Lee Gasgoyne, Heartbeat Gallery, Orchard Centre, Sheffield.
2011 ‘Ill-Equipped‘ Access Space, Sheffield.
2010 ‘The Tide of Society‘ 433 Gallery, Sheffield.
2010 ‘Humans in Cages‘ @ Underneath Leeds Station (unauthorised), Leeds.
2009 ‘Truth and Tribute‘ (with artist Bradley Sharp) Hive Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley.
2009 ‘The Sprawl: drawings based on the land of people‘ Hive Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley.
Group Exhibitions:
2024: Digging Deep, Digging Deep – 40 years on since the Miners’ Strike’, Artbomb, Doncaster.
2022: Reset the System, Manchester.
2019: Becoming After, Ma Fine Art degree show, University of Leeds, Yorkshire
2018: The Public Secret, The Retro Bar at the End of the Universe, Skippko arts organisation, Whitehall Road, Leeds, Yorks
2018: VOID_SETUP () {, Ma Fine art summer Show, University of Leeds, Yorks
2018: #GE18 – The General Election of Governing Emotions, The Retro Bar at the End of the Universe, Leeds Print Workshop and the Art Hostel, Leeds.
2018: [Dis] Junction, work-in-progress exhibition, Ma Fine group show, University of Leeds, West Yorks
2017: ‘Will The Last Person to Leave The 20th Century Please Turn out The Lights?’, The Little Blue Orange Tree, Skippko Arts organisation, Baildon, West Yorks
2017: The International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds.
2016, ’Fighting For Crumbs, at The World Transformed, Liverpool.
2016 ‘Fighting For Crumbs (Art in The Shadow of Neoliberal Britain), Gage Gallery, Sheffield + The Redshed, Wakefield.
2016 ‘Somewhere Else’, Somewhere Else Cafe, Sheffield.
2016, ‘Soul Searching‘ Dewsbury Museum, West Yorkshire.
2015 ‘Strange Bedfellows‘ Barnsley.
2015 ‘Bells From The Deep‘ The Hundred Years Gallery, London.
2015 ‘Non-stop Inertia’, Left Bank, Leeds.
2015 Electric Picture House Open, The Electric Picture House, Congleton, Cheshire.
2015 The Anti Gallery Project. Degrees of Freedom. Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London.
2014 Now in Reverse, The Hundred years Gallery, London.
2014, Unity Works, launch exhibition, Westgate, Wakefield.
2014 Electric Picture House Open, The Electric Picture House, Congleton, Cheshire.
2014 Our Corner: Art as political Expression, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
2013 An Unofficial Alumni, Redbrook Studios & Exhibition Space, Barnsley.
2012 The Redshed, as part of Wakefied Lit Fest, Sept 2012, Wakefield.
2012 Here There Everywhere (Part 2 – Sheffield), West Street, Sheffield.
2012 Borderline Ballardian, Creative Arts Developlment Space (CADS), Sheffield.
2012 Left In Vision, Marxism 2012, University College London
2012 ‘New International Art Exhibition, Treadwell Gallery, Kirchengasse 4, 4160 Aigen, Austria
2011 ‘P A N D E M I C – Sheffield’
2011 ‘Globalsapiens’: An Introduction, Creative Arts Development Space (CADS), Sheffield
2011 ‘Making a Mark’ Hive Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley
2010 ‘Regenerate’ Creative Arts Development Space (CADS), Sheffield
2010 ‘Unquiet Desperation’, Bungalows and Bears, Sheffield
2010 ‘A Silent Conversation’. Holme Valley Warehouse, Honley, Huddersfield
2010 ‘The Working Artist’, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
2010 ‘Black Gold’ Hive Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley
2009 ‘Tunnel vision to Copenhagen‘, George Yard, Barnsley
2009 ‘Three’ the Old Sweet Shop, Sheffield
2009 ‘Boom!’ The Coterie Gallery, Sheffield; The Oriental Café, Wakefield (Touring show)
2009 ‘Emergence’, Barnsley
2009 ‘Beermat Show’, Temporary Art Space, Halifax
2008 ‘Contrast’ Hive gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre
2008 ‘South Yorkshire open’ Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
2007 Undergradute Interdisciplinary degree show, University of Huddersfield
Published:
2017: The Retro Bar at The End of The Universe. D.S Jarvis, and John Ledger. Edited by John Wright
2016 – Culture Matters
2016: Prisoners of Reason: Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy, S.M.Amadae
2015: Art Saves Lives International
2015: Stories From Forgotten Space
2014: Little Performance (online magazine)
2014: In The City, published by Victoria Lucas, in collaboration with the Hanover Project
2014: Let The Lyrics Talk
2014: Inner-Workings 2: Blog-writings To Accompany Exhibitions (March 2012 – March 2014)
2014: A Walk Down The Hallam Line: A Personal Account of The West Riding of Yorkshire
2014: Rebuilding The Flattened
2013: West Riding of Yorkshire: A Pyschogeographical Account
2103: Now Then Magazine, May 2013
2012: Inner-Workings (Writings and Rough Sketches to Accompany Exhibitions)
2011: New Internationalist Diary/Planner
2010: The Tide of Society
2010: Going Nowhere, Writing Letters To Nobody
2010: Art Not Oil Diary/Planner
Awards:
2008: South Yorkshire Young Artist of the year, Cooper Art Gallery, South Yorkshire
2007: The William Northam award for outstanding contribution, from The University of Huddersfield.
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