Upcoming events and exhibits: 2018
Holy Trinity, Sloane Street
Activists, Artisans & Apprentices, and due to feature a talk from Guild Companion, Frank Field MP
www.holytrinityartsandcrafts.org
The Gamble House, Pasadena
5-8pm
Speakers: John and Jim Ipekjian
The Lecture Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum
6.30pm
The former Secretary of State of Culture, Media and Sport, Chris Smith, takes up Ruskin’s idea of “a political economy of art” in his 1857 lectures, “A Joy For Ever”, and explores contemporary issues concerning the public impact of the arts.
Book Tickets: http://ruskinfoundation2018.eventbrite.com
The Roycroft Campus, East Aurora, NY
Speakers include Kateri Ewing (Artist-in-Residence, Roycroft Campus); Jim Spates (Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges); Joe Weber (Printer, Roycroft Campus)
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
4 – 6 pm, followed by a drinks reception.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP asap to kate@thebigdraw.org to request a place. Your place will be confirmed by Kate via e mail. Please note that this is a private event by invite only and that spaces are limited and strictly allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Walkley Carnegie Library, South Road, Sheffield, UK
2-4pm
The Original Ruskin Art Club House, Los Angeles
Meersbrook Park, Sheffield, UK
Doheny Library, University of Southern California, University of Southern California, Huntington Library Institute for the History of California and the West
Speakers: Professor David St. John (Department of English, University of Southern California); Dr. Sara Atwood (The Guild of St. George and Portland Community College).
Film: “Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry”
Tate Britain
Oxford Museum of Natural History
Lecture Given by John Holmes, Professor of English, Birmingham University
The Birmingham and Midland Institute
The Day School will begin at 9.30am with coffee and a Danish before two morning lectures. We will have a break at approximately 11.30am followed by a lecture before lunch. Lunch will be served at approximately 12.30pm. In the afternoon we shall enjoy two further lectures before finishing with tea and biscuits at 3.30pm.
Chair:
Rita McClean
Speakers:
Dr Cynthia Gamble (Former Chair of the Ruskin Society and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter) – ‘How Ruskin Changed Proust’s Life: From Dilettante to Writer’
Joe Holyoak (Architect and urban designer, architectural columnist for the Birmingham Post) – ‘Ruskin and J. H. Chamberlain’
Dr Tom Jones (Lecturer and art teacher) – ‘Drawing as Seeing: Ruskin Today’
Ellen McAdam (Director of Birmingham Museums Trust) – ‘Ruskin and Burne-Jones’
Professor Stephen Wildman (Lancaster University) – ‘Untold Pleasures: The Ruskins’ Turner Collection’
More information and tickets can be found here
Brantwood Blue Gallery, Coniston, UK
A starlike object moves in the dark space of the Blue Gallery whilst, in the Annexe, the sky has shattered into a cairn of shards.
The Transience of Wonder: sculptural installation and Black Sun: video installation
Video artist and sculptor Patricia Townsend returns to the Blue Gallery five years after her video installation Morecambe Bay. In Black Sun she presents a hypnotic vision which is powerfully moving together with a sculptural installation in the Annexe reflecting Ruskin’s love of the sky; polarities which usher-in 2019, the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth.
2019
Brantwood Blue Gallery, Coniston, UK
A starlike object moves in the dark space of the Blue Gallery whilst, in the Annexe, the sky has shattered into a cairn of shards.
The Transience of Wonder: sculptural installation and Black Sun: video installation
Video artist and sculptor Patricia Townsend returns to the Blue Gallery five years after her video installation Morecambe Bay. In Black Sun she presents a hypnotic vision which is powerfully moving together with a sculptural installation in the Annexe reflecting Ruskin’s love of the sky; polarities which usher-in 2019, the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth.
Houghton Rare Book Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
2 Temple Place, London, UK
Brantwood, Coniston, UK
Ondatje Wing Lecture Theatre, National Portrait Gallery
1.15pm
Speaker: Prof. Robert Hewison
Tickets will go on sale on Monday 29 October 2018 for NPG members, and then on Monday 5 November for the general public.
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Royal Academy of Arts, London
6.30pm
An evening of readings and music from Ruskin, featuring actors Michael Palin and Dan Draper, and songs realised by Sarah Rodgers, including a performance of her setting of “The King of the Golden River” by Richard Edgar-Wilson and the Coull Quartet.
Tickets will be on sale from the Royal Academy in November 2018.
Coniston, UK
The Ruskin Prize
Call for entries opens for The John Ruskin Prize 2019 for artists, makers and designers resident in the UK. Visit www.ruskinprize.co.uk for more on the prize and sign up for the newsletter here to receive the 2019 call for artists.
Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour/ Château de Pau
February 2019 will mark the bicentenary of John Ruskin’s birth and the eminent Victorian’s name and ideas still regularly crop up in a variety of contexts and media on both sides of the Channel and the Atlantic. For the members of the French Victorian and Edwardian Society (SFEVE), the anniversary is a timely opportunity to reappraise the ways in which Ruskin’s ideas have been interpreted, translated, transplanted on foreign soil – France but also Italy – and accommodated in the numerous fields that were impacted by his writings.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
– Pr Emily Eells, Université Paris Nanterre
– Mr Jérôme Bastianelli, Directeur Général Délégué, Musée du Quai Branly
– Pr George P. Landow, Brown University, USA
Conference Website: https://ruskinsfeve2019.sciencesconf.org/
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Lecture by Professor Dinah Birch CBE
St George's Bloomsbury
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Gallery, Tokyo
York Art Gallery, York, UK
Brantwood, Coniston, UK
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Tea and cakes 3.30, Lecture 4.15
Speaker: Prof Robert Hewison
Organised by the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum
Brantwood, Blue Gallery
A display of pots from the Mingei (folk crafts) tradition and its Ruskin connections featuring work by Ogata Kenzan, Shoji Hamada, Bernard Leech, Tomoo Hamada, Edward Hughes and Miles Martin Moore.
Blue Gallery, Brantwood
Tomoo Hamada, potter and grandson will open the show with a talk about his grandfather, renowned potter Shoji Hamada. This will take place in the Severn Studio, Brantwood
Also on 15th May 2019 there will be a JapaneseTea Ceremony & Presentation. Celebrating the friendship of Japan and Great Britain through the inspirational legacy of John Ruskin, the Urasenke Foundation will present and demonstrate the ancient Japanese art of tea. This will take place at the Brantwood Coach House
Brantwood, Coniston
Cumbria Youth Dance Company
Cumbria YDC, in collaboration with Wired Aerial Theatre, will create a suite of unique site-specific, bungee-assisted and aerial performance works referencing Ruskin’s love of mountains. Dancers will work on the Cumbrian fells and in the studio to explore the transition between vertical & horizontal, producing 3 unique pieces of choreography for sharing in the grounds at Brantwood. The works will also feature at Lakes Alive festival in September 2019, on stage at The Lowry as part of U.Dance NW 2019 and on screen at Kendal Mountain Festival as part of their Special Film Screenings in November 2019.
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Kurume City Art Museum, Japan
Edinburgh, Scotland
Abbot Hall, Kendal, UK
Brantwood, Coniston, UK
Abeno Hanikas Art Musem, Osaka, Japan
National Gallery, London
7 pm
National Gallery, London
Details to follow
The Roycroft Campus, East Aurora, NY
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Guild of St George and Ruskin in Sheffield host a Ruskin symposium and celebration. Programme to include The Ruskin Lecture by Guild Master, Clive Wilmer. Full programme & speakers TBC
The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Jim Spates (Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges) and Dr. Gabriel Meyer (Executive Director, Ruskin Art Club), Coordinators
Speakers include Clive Wilmer (Master of The Guild of St. George), Dr. Sara Atwood (The Guild of St. George and Portland Community College), Gabriel Meyer (President, Ruskin Art Club), Jim Spates (Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)