Turner and the Environment at Turner's House
June 20 2024
Picture: Turner's House
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Turner's House in Twickenham will be opening a new exhibition on 6th July 2024. A World of Care: Turner and the Environment promises to be the must-see event for the environmentalist art lover (just make sure you take public transport there, of course).
According to their website:
This year’s exhibition reveals how Turner captured environmental and social developments that would go on to change Britain and the world‘s climates forever. This will be the first exhibition dedicated to this subject. Highly attuned to changes in the landscape and atmosphere, Turner captured them in his ground-breaking paintings, drawings and engravings. Through his art, he documented plumes of smoke, burning furnaces, urban sprawl, deforested landscapes, overfishing and extreme weather. The exhibition will also seek to connect the changes that Turner was observing and capturing in beautiful works of art, with changes to the environment that we are currently seeing.
The exhibition will run from 6th July until 27th October 2024 and is complimented by an interesting selection of lectures related to the show (click on the link above to read more).
