Mr Ruskin, Someday Someone Will Scuba Dive Over Your House
5 October – 11 November 2024
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 …
To find out more , watch an interview ‘A Flood Story’ by Sarah Casey with Gerry Davies on the making of this exhibition by clicking on the QR code or visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PdWMjv0_ws
Further information:
- Brantwood is open every day during summer (10.30 – 5.00) and Wednesday to Sunday (from 13 November) during winter (10.30 – 4.30), also closing on Christmas & Boxing Day.
- Costs: Admission to the house and gardens is £15.00 for adults, £12.50 for students and free for children (16 and under).
- Location Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria LA21 8AD
- For more information please call 015394 41396; email: enquiries@brantwood.org.uk
