A Radical Redemption: John Ledger
Open everyday 21 - 28 May
Launch event: Fri 20 May, 6-8pm
Free & open to all
A Radical Redemption is the solo exhibition by Barnsley-based artist John Ledger. Collapsing autobiography and fiction into one space, the project explores the ongoing legacies produced by the build-up of cultural attitudes and coping methods as they play out in daily life, often destructively.
For over a decade, John has explored the interplay between politics, technology, addiction and mental health in contemporary society through his large-scale, chaotic-yet-meticulous drawings. Using film, word-play and sonic sculpture, A Radical Redemption operates from ‘the lived in’: hypothetical situations are taken to their darkly-introspective limits. Is it possible to talk of redemption in an age dogged by division and the related guilt/shame? How might you act when the impossible seems urgently necessary?
John B Ledger (b. 1984, Barnsley, South Yorkshire) is a visual artist whose work emerges from lengthy autoethnographic and socio-political assessments. Taking the form of large-scale drawings, maps or films, his practice is deeply informed by the post-industrial landscape and the post-historical culture that defined his formative years. John’s work also looks at our relations to the ‘self’ in late capitalism and an age of social media overload.