‘Locked inside The Maddening House’ (2026, mixed media on paper, 190x190cm) It’s hard not to confuse the sense of life’s potentialities afforded to your younger self with those experienced by a wider collective at the same moment… For myself, not so long ago, the online communicative space appeared to contain an open-ended if volatile dynamic,Continue reading “‘Locked inside The Maddening House’”
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New line of prints
Really happy to share that I’ve now got these limited edition signed A1 prints for sale. They do great justice to two of my most cherished works. I am doing an edition of just 7 of each – I prefer odd numbers. They are £55 (including p&p) each. Comment or DM me if you’re interested Continue reading “New line of prints”
‘NEW BRUTALITY’ (2024, mixed media on paper)
This is ‘NEW BRUTALITY’ Sorry for being trapped in the 20th century dealing with the 21st. And sorry for being unable to make any sense whatsoever – locked as we are inside the maddening house, where a ‘just do it’ Californian approach to life has left us all burnt out people on a burning planet. DeepContinue reading “‘NEW BRUTALITY’ (2024, mixed media on paper)”
A Radical Redemption @Bloc Projects
From what began as a good opportunity to exhibit at a decent gallery in the region, A Radical Redemption became a meticulously obsessed-over project. Having had to initially cancel, when things got a little too much, I got a new opportunity for the exhibition to go ahead in the May 2022. I’ve been producing workContinue reading “A Radical Redemption @Bloc Projects”
Hipster Psychosis
‘Hipster Psychosis’ (2021, mixed media on paper) I’ve long seen my works as successive chapters in a book I can never complete, because it is lived in. Thus ‘Hipster Psychosis’ is the latest ‘chapter’. I think what has motivated this drawing more than anything is the ‘post lockdown’ ‘back to normal’ culture, which feels likeContinue reading “Hipster Psychosis”
‘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’”
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”
John B Ledger 