Mr Ruskin, Someday Someone Will Scuba Dive Over Your House
Brantwood is pleased to announce our autumn exhibition, Mr Ruskin, Someday Someone Will Scuba Dive Over Your House. The exhibition presents a new suite of drawings by artist Gerry Davies, which take their lead from Ruskin’s 1884 lecture text The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century. The series builds on Ruskin’s insight that skies and weather over Coniston were vexed and plagued by industrial pollution, and that a miasma of smoke from mills and factories was changing the atmosphere.
Gerry has imagined a future where Ruskin’s nascent environmentalism has fully run its course. This is a future where our current climate crisis has resulted in total glacial and polar melt, one where Brantwood, its contents and gardens are inundated by floods and rising sea levels.
The drawings depict the house, its interiors and collections and the gardens submerged. Ruskin’s study, bedroom and the dining room are awash, objects swirl and fish flit between artworks and bookcases and the gardens are transformed into a coral reef.
Come and immerse yourself …
