Join us for a series of online lectures that are closely linked to our exhibition "A World of Care": Turner and the Environment.

On Zoom. Various dates available. 

£7 per lecture, or £24 for all four

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Cannot make one or more lectures? No problems! All of the lectures will be recorded and the recording sent to ticket holders only.

11 July- "A World of Care": Curator's Introduction 6.30 – 7.30

Join Dr Thomas Ardill , curator of our exhibition A World of Care: Turner and the Environment, to explore how Turner captured environmental and social developments that would go on to change Britain and the world's climates forever. This is the first exhibition dedicated to this subject and will connect the changes that Turner was observing and capturing in beautiful works of art, with the environmental and ecological crisis that we are now facing.

15 August – In Search of Frankenstein 6.30-7.30

Award-winning photographic artist Chloe Dewe Mathews, whose haunting image of the Mer de Glace is exhibited alongside Turner's view of the same subject in "A World of Care", discusses how she went 'In search of Frankenstein'. Inspired both by today's environmental crisis and the bicentenary of the 'Year without a Summer', when Europe experienced climate chaos caused by a volcanic ash cloud, Chloe will link the events of the early 19th Century with the early 21st Century.

5 September – Turner's Polluted Atmospheres 6.30 – 7.30

J.M.W. Turner was one of the first artists to systematically depict the varied and multiple aspects of human pollution. Sarah Gould, Assistant Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne explores how Turner's work acts as both a record of historical environmental conditions and enables us to understand changes to our current climate. She will discuss his work in the context of the contemporary concepts of pollution and climate crisis.

3 October – "As if about the aftermath of crime": Turner's ruins, steams and fires 6.30-7.30pm

Join Professor Frédéric Ogée, author of a forthcoming monogram on J.M.W. Turner, to explore the ways in which Turner's landscapes are at a crossroads between the Industrial Revolution and the triumph of landscape painting in Britain. In his descriptions of ruins and his renderings of steams, mists and fires, Turner's pictures examine the effects of humans on the landscape and encourage us to feel a sense of unease.