My Creative Output Throughout My 20’s – A Retrospective
This may well seem a little indulgent. However, being just days from leaving my 20’s behind, my sense of self-worth is considerably less than secure, and I felt ambushed by a feeling of sheer inadequacy earlier today as I waited for a train at possibly one of the most neglected major railway stations in the UK, a feeling I felt I had to shrug. I have tried to shrug this feeling by ignoring what I haven’t done during the past 10 years, and what I have done. So here is a chronicle of things I have made during the past 10 years (some of the stuff I wouldn’t wish to show as my main body of work now, but it isn’t stuff I should try to deny was ever made also).
20 years old (2004)
The above painting was an attempt to make a landscape that resembled the experience of being locked under the control mechanisms of eating disorders.
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The Grim Reaper Snowman (a character used for my Things To Worry About t-shirts)
No Escape
The Smog Monsters (character used for Things To Worry About T-shirts)
Music:
In Balance written just before my 21st birthday; this recording made in 2007
21 years old (2005)
Images of my The Last Rainforest piece, possibly the first injection of irony into my work.
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Loosing Bits of Myself As I Get further Back into the Social World
Everytime I Go Under I Lose More of Myself
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Images from UltraMarket
Music:
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22 years old (2006)
The Phone Sharks (preliminary Tide of Society piece)
Grim Expectations
Like Bullets to the Skin
Barnsley After the Sea-levels Rise (Happy Ending)
Barnsley in Bloom 2020
Green Graffiti, Junction 38 tree
Barnsley After the Sea Levels Rise (Unhappy Ending)
Britain 2050: the Human Condition
Music:
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23 years old (2007)
Barnsley After the Sea levels Rise (Happy Ending)
Barnsley With a View of Other Towns
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Self Portrait in Co-existence with Nature
Comfortably Blind
The Underlying Pessimism of The 21st Century
The Revenge of a Discarded Friend
House-Hunting 2050
If You Don’t Get out and Walk
Music:
Everybody Needs to Be my Friend
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24 years old (2008)
Humans In Cages, art project. Drawing title: The Odds That Were Against us
Humans In Cages, art project. Drawing title: Land of Opportunity
The Hole in My Stomach Is Making The Hole in The Sky
This Hole Cannot Be Filled in a Carpark Overspill
People Factory
The Sprawl
The Sprawl (in situ)
The Healing Process installation, Hive Gallery exhibition
Music:
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25 years old (2009)
Central Bombardment
Global Pillage
The Alpha Forest installation, Emergence exhibition, Barnsley
We Are Watching Ourselves Sink
Looking For Truth installation. Part of Truth and Tribute exhibition
Images of Tunnel Vision to Copenhagen exhibition, Barnsley. Set to coincide with 2009 Copenhagen climate summit
Books:
Going Nowhere, Writing Letters to Nobody
26 years old (2010)
“I Believe in Capitalism”
Installation at The Working Artist exhibition
The Logic of Neoliberalism
A Final Acceptance
photos from The Tide of Society Exhibition, Sheffield
Global Ghetto, 2045, Marks the Centenary of The Defeat of Fascism
Books:
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27 years old (2011)
The Index For Child Well-being
Ill-Equipped
Image from Making a Mark exhibition, Hive Gallery, Barnsley
Image from Globalsapiens exhibition, Sheffield
Image from Globalsapiens exhibition, Sheffield
Image of Achieving and Getting Things Done installation from Globalsapiens exhibition, Sheffield
Image of Achieving and Getting Things Done installation from Globalsapiens exhibition, Sheffield
In The City…
Books:
Inner Workings (writings to accompany exhibitions)
Blogs
The Outer conflict reflects the inner conflict (thoughts/feelings after attending March 26 demo)
A Past returning to haunt and all roads forward blocked
28 years old (2012)
Who Would Want To Listen To This?
The Democratic Umbrella
Heartbeat Gallery, Exhibition, Sheffield
Image of Mary Rose: we are sinking installation, from Borderline Ballardian exhibition
Image of Mary Rose: we are sinking installation, from Borderline Ballardian exhibition
Image of Memory Hole installation, from Borderline Ballardian exhibition
The Planet’s Mental Illness
https://johnledger.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/ghosts/
29 years old
The Place of Dead Ends
Mind Camp
A Psychic Time-bomb
West Riding of Yorkshire: A psychogeographical Account installation, at An Unofficial Alumni exhibition
Books:
West Riding of Yorkshire: A Psychogeographical Account
Blogs:
https://johnledger.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/just-where-the-hell-are-we-in-time/
https://johnledger.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/our-dark-hearts/
