The charity for arts, crafts and the rural economy, founded by John Ruskin in 1871.
The charity for arts, crafts and the rural economy, founded by John Ruskin in 1871.
The work Ruskin did int he name of the Guild of St George - and much else that he did besides - was always locally based and done in response to specific needs. What he called Fors (fortune, chance, luck) would present a problem to him and he would respond to it, transforming accident into destiny In this lecture, Clive Wilmer reflects that that is how the Guild worked then, and how it works, in many ways, today.
This is the text of the 2019 Ruskin Lecture, given by outgoing Master of the Guild Clive Wilmer, at the Guild AGM in Sheffield on 16 November 2019.