Location
TW1 2LR
Dates
This exhibition runs from Sat, 6th Jul 2024 to Sun, 27th Oct 2024.
This exhibition has not opened yet. Will open on Sat, 6th Jul 2024
Cost: £11
Description
This summer, Turner’s House, thanks to a generous loan of works from Tate, asserts J.M.W. Turner was the first major British artist to engage with man’s effect on the natural world.
The exhibition reveals how Turner grappled with the effects of the industrial revolution on the landscape and captured environmental and social developments that would go on to change Britain and the world‘s climates forever.
A World of Care presents a selection of J.M.W. Turner’s paintings, drawings and prints in relation to a series of environmental issues. It shows how 200 years ago Turner bore witness to the beginnings of societal and industrial developments that would lead to today’s ecological concerns. The exhibition, featuring the rarely seen oil painting Sunset, c.1830-35, the original drawing of London from Greenwich 1808-09 and Fire at the Grand Storehouse of the Tower of London, 1841, demonstrates Turner’s keen attention to society’s impact on the natural world and the huge effect environmental change had on his subject matter.
Turner’s contemporaries, the poet William Wordsworth and the writer John Ruskin, despaired at the environmental changes they witnessed. While other 19th century landscape painters turned away from the newly industrialised world Turner determined to incorporate modern realities into his art, seeing both disruption and beauty in them. The changes he witnessed fired his imagination and drove him to capture new artistic subjects, such as the 24-hour carbon-economy in Shields on the River Tyne, and the record-breaking momentum of the steam engine in Rain, Steam and Speed.
A World of Care radically reframes Turner’s work. Staged in the artist’s own home, the exhibition connects the past to the present and expands our understanding of Turner’s subject matter, worldview and vision. It encourages visitors to look at Turner’s paintings in a new way, provoked by ecological concern.
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This exhibition has not opened yet. Will open on Sat, 6th Jul 2024
This event runs over several days/weeks. Dates include:
July 2024
- Sat, 6th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 7th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 8th Jul 2024
Closed - Tue, 9th Jul 2024
Closed - Wed, 10th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 11th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 12th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 13th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 14th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 15th Jul 2024
Closed - Tue, 16th Jul 2024
Closed - Wed, 17th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 18th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 19th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 20th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 21st Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 22nd Jul 2024
Closed - Tue, 23rd Jul 2024
Closed - Wed, 24th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 25th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 26th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 27th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 28th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 29th Jul 2024
Closed - Tue, 30th Jul 2024
Closed - Wed, 31st Jul 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm)
August 2024
- Thu, 1st Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 2nd Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 3rd Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 4th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 5th Aug 2024
Closed - Tue, 6th Aug 2024
Closed - Wed, 7th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 8th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 9th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 10th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 11th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 12th Aug 2024
Closed - Tue, 13th Aug 2024
Closed - Wed, 14th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 15th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 16th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 17th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 18th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 19th Aug 2024
Closed - Tue, 20th Aug 2024
Closed - Wed, 21st Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 22nd Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 23rd Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 24th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 25th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 26th Aug 2024
Closed - Tue, 27th Aug 2024
Closed - Wed, 28th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 29th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 30th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 31st Aug 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm)
September 2024
- Sun, 1st Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 2nd Sep 2024
Closed - Tue, 3rd Sep 2024
Closed - Wed, 4th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 5th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 6th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 7th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 8th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 9th Sep 2024
Closed - Tue, 10th Sep 2024
Closed - Wed, 11th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 12th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 13th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 14th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 15th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 16th Sep 2024
Closed - Tue, 17th Sep 2024
Closed - Wed, 18th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 19th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 20th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 21st Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 22nd Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 23rd Sep 2024
Closed - Tue, 24th Sep 2024
Closed - Wed, 25th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 26th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 27th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 28th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 29th Sep 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 30th Sep 2024
Closed
October 2024
- Tue, 1st Oct 2024
Closed - Wed, 2nd Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 3rd Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 4th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 5th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 6th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 7th Oct 2024
Closed - Tue, 8th Oct 2024
Closed - Wed, 9th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 10th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 11th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 12th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 13th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 14th Oct 2024
Closed - Tue, 15th Oct 2024
Closed - Wed, 16th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 17th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 18th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 19th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 20th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Mon, 21st Oct 2024
Closed - Tue, 22nd Oct 2024
Closed - Wed, 23rd Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Thu, 24th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Fri, 25th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sat, 26th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm) - Sun, 27th Oct 2024
(10:00am - 4:00pm)