It’s pretty unlikely I’ll get anything else done this year now, as I’ve hit my New Year-period wall prematurely, from which I can never imagine the possibility of making anything new again – until I make something new again. Perhaps I do my own yearly roundups because I somehow feel that I’m unjustifiably forgotten about. When I regain my bearings from the egotistical gravel pit, I recognise that it’s likely over 90% of us feel this way. But all the same, no choice but to play The Game.
So here’s a list, in a more or chronological order, of the best bits of what I have done in 2015; and believe me, there’s a lot of bits I’d rather regret. Regarding the visual works, I feel THE LONG NIGHT OF A NEEDLESS STORM is my strongest piece, both in visuals and title, it’s the best attempt I’ve made all year of interlinking all the problems of today indirectly back to the dominant political agenda.
January 2015
Cynicism Has Had It’s Day
What is Ugly Anyway?
Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record in London

February 2015
Surfaces of an Unrealised World

March 2015
Not Humanly Possible (A4, ink on paper)

Not Humanly Possible
A Cognitive Austerity (A4, ink on paper)

A Cognitive Austerity
Another Lonely Night, Stare at TV Screen
April 2015
Stories From Forgotten Space
May 2015
Lost Bus Routes and Pre-Election Rambles from john Ledger on Vimeo.
Five MORE Years… (A4, ink on paper)

five MORE years…
“I am Here (a Lost Work From 2009)
June 2015
THE LONG NIGHT OF A NEEDLESS STORM (125x100cm, mixed media on paper)



THE LONG NIGHT OF A NEEDLESS STORM
“Hardworking Tax-payers, Inconvenienced” (A4, ink on paper)

“Hardworking Taxpayers, Inconvenienced”
Pain is Barred an Outlet (A4, ink on paper)

Pain is Barred an Outlet
July 2015
“Sad, LONELY, Frightened” (A4, ink on paper)

“Sad, LONELY, Frightened”
Stories From Forgotten Space (book)

Everybody’s Fracking (95X130cm, mixed media on paper)

Everybody’s Fracking

August 2015
The Self [ie] Under Siege (A4, mixed media on paper)
![The Self [ie] Under Siege - By John Ledger](https://johnledger.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/john-6.jpg?w=479)
The Self [ie] Under Siege
Lost Summers

Interview for Art Saves Lives magazine
OneNationTory (2015)

OneNationTory
September 2015
“Can We Stop Now, Please?” (A4, mixed media on paper)

“Can We Stop Now, Please?”
The Big Smoke (and Mirrors): Stories From Forgotten Space from john Ledger on Vimeo.
Images from Voices From The Wilderness exhibition (Sheffield)
Images from Strange Bedfellows exhibition (Barnsley)
October 2015
Manchester and The Morning After (Stories From Forgotten Space) from john Ledger on Vimeo.
Nothing New Under Digital Rain

November 2015
Debtland (2015, 110X77cm, mixed media on paper)



Debtland

Friday’s Anguish
Artwork for Wear Your Band T-shirt to Work Day (explanation here)

Artwork for Wear Your Band T-shirt to Work Day
Sounds that made up my year…
“the rotten soil of nowhere land”
Tears For Fears – The Hurting (Demo version)
Zomby – Where Were U in 92′
Real McCoy – Runaway (Tory election victory-sting-soother)
The Fall – Frightened
New Order – The Village
Goat – Let it Bleed/Gathering of Ancient Tribes
Sleaford Mods – Double Diamond
Wu Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M
Sleaford Mods – Mcflurry
Sleaford Mods – Jobseeker
Sleaford Mods – Tied up in Notts
DMS – vengeance
Sleaford Mods – Teacher Faces Porn Charges
Rufige Kru – Menace
Congress – 40 Miles
Chumbawumba – Tubthumping
Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era – Far Out
The Chameleons – Don’t Fall/Second Skin – (again)