The Skies are for All: Ruskin and Climate Change - Lancaster University
‘“The Skies are for all”: Ruskin and Climate Change
22 April-26 June 2022

The first of five exhibitions and related research and publications in the series ‘John Ruskin in the Age of Science’, as Principal Investigator and lead curator, with co-curators, Keith Moore (Royal Society) and Howard Hull (Brantwood).

A lifetime of observing the skies led John Ruskin to conclude that human activities were damaging the environment. This first exhibition explores how Ruskin’s analysis paralleled the evolution of climate science, and shaped his contribution to defining the Anthropocene: the world we have made.

This exhibition series placed Ruskin alongside his nineteenth-century scientific contemporaries, exploring his influence on science and society, in his time and our own. In addition to the on-site exhibition, catalogues, Google Arts and Culture digital exhibits and exhibition guides listed below, related publications include: ‘"Science Mixed with Feeling": Ruskin and the Observation of the Natural World’ in Ruskin After 200: Thinking with Ruskin in the Twenty-First Century ed. Sara L. Maurer, Judith Stoddart, Deanna K. Kreisel and Amy Woodson-Bolton. SBN:978-3031724633 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), pp.105-126

 Exhibition Guide
 Exhibition Catalogue: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/images/ruskin/The_skies_are_for_all_catalogue_2022.pdf
 Google Arts and Culture digital exhibit: The Skies are for All: Ruskin and Climate Change