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Companions & Friends day in Sheffield A chance for Guild Companions and friends to gather at the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield and hear about the Ruskin Collection, have a special tour of the stores (limited numbers) and hear from other Companions about projects and passions.
Ruskin and the Crafts
Private viewing of the 2024 displays in the Ruskin Collection
Comes the Flood 2023
Head, Hand and Heart 2024 John Ruskin believed that the move from hand crafted objects to machine made mass-produced goods during the industrial revolution was detrimental to workers, physically, mentally and emotionally. He thought that industrialisation removed workers from the artistic process and as a result from nature itself. Ruskin felt that this dehumanized the worker and led to a loss of dignity. Ruskin advocated producing art and craft as he thought it brought “the hand, the head and the heart” together, helping to create a more purposeful and fulfilling way of life.
A monthly treasury of works from the Ruskin Collection Twelve free pdfs to download, with a detailed entry about a different work of art from the Ruskin Collection for every day of the year.
Seven fresh perspectives on the Ruskin Collection online Seven interns from Manchester Metropolitan University, working with Guild Master Rachel Dickinson in the summer of 2021, have explored the Guild's Ruskin Collection online, and come up with their own responses to what they discovered, guided by the brief to create something of interest for people between the ages of 16-24.
Conserving & digitising our rare manuscripts The Guild will soon be launching an appeal to raise funds towards the conservation and digitisation of the precious and rare manuscripts in the collection. More details will be posted here when we have them.
Sheffield The Guild is deeply connected to the city of Sheffield and its people, owning the Ruskin Collection, now cared for and displayed by Sheffield Museums Trust, which was given by John Ruskin for the benefit of the working people of the city. From 2014 - 2019 the Guild ran an annual programme of events and activities to rediscover the city's Ruskin legacy, entitled Ruskin in Sheffield., which culminated in Ruskin's bicentenary year, 2019.
Ruskin in Sheffield projects 2014-2019