JOHN RUSKIN – THE POWER OF SEEING
Bicentenary exhibition at Two Temple Place, London
26 January – 22 April 2019
RUSKIN LAND IN THE WYRE FOREST
is a ‘small piece of English ground, beautiful, peaceful and fruitful’.
RUSKIN IN SHEFFIELD
is an annual programme of events and activities to rediscover the legacy of John Ruskin in Sheffield.
News
Re-imagining Meersbrook Hall Re-imagining Meersbrook Hall read more Nov 13 2018 Ruskin Lecture now online A video of the Guild's 2018 Ruskin Lecture, given by Prof John Holmes, is now online. read more Nov 08 BBC1’s Countryfile visits Ruskin Land, Sunday 4 November 2019 We were delighted to welcome John Craven and the BBC Countryfile team to Ruskin Land. read more Nov 01 Event Calendar
Ruskin exhibition - Celebrating Ruskin in Bewdley Bewdley Museum 2nd March 2019, 28th April 2019 In celebration of Ruskin’s bicentenary, and the end of our HLF-supported Ruskin-in-Wyre project, this special exhibition showcases treasures from the Ruskin Collection, alongside work made during the project. Read More John Ruskin – the Power of Seeing 26th January 2019, 22nd April 2019 To mark the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth, this new exhibition celebrates the legacy and enduring relevance of Ruskin’s ideas and vision. read more The annual Ruskin Lecture 2018 3rd November 2018 Ruskin, The Pre-Raphaelites and The Oxford Museum. This lecture tells the story of this unique collaboration between science and art, showing how Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites helped to create one of the most remarkable buildings of the nineteenth century read more
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
John Ruskin was a polymath. As a writer, he commanded international respect. He was an art critic and an art patron, a skilled draughtsman and talented watercolourist, and a fierce critic of prevailing social and political norms. He wrote about nature and architecture, craftsmanship, geology, botany, Greek myth, education - a dizzying variety of subjects. Driven by his deep faith in social justice, he established the Guild of St George in the 1870s to right some of the social wrongs of the day and make the country a happier and more beautiful place in which to live and work.