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3 October –13 December2009Alex Hamilton
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| Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Alex Hamilton has spent time at Ruskin’s Coniston home, and has also studied drawings and watercolours held by the Ruskin Foundation in the Ruskin Library, which include two drawn by Ruskin at Glenfinlas. This expanded version of an exhibition originating at Brantwood in the summer also includes cyanotypes using plants from Glenfinlas – the setting of Millais’s notorious 1853 portrait – shown to some acclaim at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival. | ||
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The critic John Ruskin instructed us to look deeply into landscape; an act of looking that requires that we abandon our preconceptions and look afresh. The process of entering a landscape site requires the consideration of its very nature rather than the outward view. When John Ruskin sought to teach Millais about landscape he took him into the site; not requesting a painting that looked out from the site. When he positioned his slate seat at Brantwood Ruskin's chosen view looked into a stream, not out across Lake Coniston. By entering a site one begins to reveal what nature can teach us - it is this idea that I chose to pursue in the exhibition - Sensorium - Pictures from Nature's Laboratory. Alex Hamilton, 2009 |
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