Ruskin To-Day ('There is no wealth but life')

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The deadline for submissions to the 7th John Ruskin Prize is drawing near. There are £7,500 worth of prizes up for grabs, with a top prize of £3,000. @ParkerHarrisCo @The_Big_Draw @RuskinToday Submissions portal: artopps.co.uk/opportunities/…

📣 Just a few days left to enter the Ruskin Prize! ⏰ Deadline: Monday 25 November, 5PM (GMT) ✍️ Theme: From the Eye to the Hand 🏆 Awards: £7,500 total, with a TOP prize of £3,000 📍 Exhibition: Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 🔗 artopps.co.uk/opportunities/… Good luck! 💗

I'm delighted to be speaking about the impact of 19th century values on 21st century commerce at @ManMetUni's 19th Century Now! conference on Nov 15, as part of MMU's bicentenary celebrations. Come along! eventbrite.co.uk/e/19th-century… #Ruskinland @l19thc @rmwdickinson

Good to see David Alston's review of the first STORM-CLOUD performance by @doctortompayne on the Dark Mountain Project @darkmtn website dark-mountain.net/storm-warning/

Tickets are FREE for the 2024 Ruskin To-Day/Brantwood @RuskinsFriends lecture being given at the @Warburg_News in London on 1st November by @CNRiding Further details and booking here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/2024-ru…

Good to hear Prof John Holmes of @unibirmingham @BIFoRUoB on the Pre-Raphaelite Podcast, including mention of the Guild's landholding in the Wyre Forest, Ruskin Land & the work taking place there. Thank you Sara Atwood @RuskinArtClub @RuskinSocietyNA podbean.com/pu/pbblog-7u5m…

Dr Stuart Eagles, @A_Ruskinian indeed, does valiant work to keep information about Ruskin in the public sphere as accurate, wide-ranging and useful as possible.

My thoughts today are with the good people of Ruskin, Florida, which stands directly in the path of #HurricaneMilton. This wonderful mural of JR, on whose ideas the community was founded, graces the cover of #Ruskinland

This Saturday!

Storm-Cloud: Thrown into Form is an immersive performance in a former steel factory, blending live action, projection & a weather-inspired soundscape. At the G-Mill during No Bounds Festival, 7 pm, Saturday, 12th October. Free tickets available here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/storm-cloud-…

'In order that people may be happy at work,’ wrote John Ruskin, ‘these three things are needed: They must be fit for it; They must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it.’ Words to live by, both in our own lives & in institutions.

Fascinating profile/interview with Mark Usher, a Companion of the Guild, farmer & Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at @uvmvermont As Ruskin wrote ‘…the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working' uvm.edu/news/story/vir…

2/2...which highlighted the disastrous results of nineteenth-century industrialisation, the human impact on the environment, & the effects of air pollution, a ‘plague-wind’ on our health. Read David Alston's reflections on this summer's first performance: guildofstgeorge.org.uk/newseventsrevi…

Tickets (free) can now be booked for the October 12th immersive multi-media performance of STORM CLOUD - THROWN INTO FORM as part of @festival_no The project was conceived by @doctortompayne & inspired by John Ruskin's prophetic lecture of 1884... 1/2 eventbrite.co.uk/e/storm-cloud-…

Jane Morris! @AnnekaRice ! And me! On Great Lives next week - listen on @BBCRadio4 Mon afternoon (15.30) or Tuesday evening (21.30) for all the best stories of Victorian art, romance & embroidery: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… @VictorianWeb @PreRaphPodcast @WmMorrisSocUK @WMGallery

The 7th John Ruskin Prize is open for submissions with the theme FROM THE EYE TO THE HAND for 2025, open to artists globally, working in any medium. The Guild is delighted to be working in partnership with @The_Big_Draw @ParkerHarrisCo @artsTBW Details: ruskinprize.co.uk/the-7th-john-r…

I thought there might be a Ruskin connection to my latest FT article about the glorious past and uncertain future of shorthand - because isn’t there always a Ruskin connection? - but I didn’t know what it was until…. 1/3

Wonderful to see the latest work by Guild Companion @seikokinoshita which reveals a fascinating story that links Sheffield to Japan - read more here: dwys.co.uk/stories/a-trai… The exhibition is on for one more week.