2024
Brantwood, Coniston
Newspaper
8 pages
370 × 298 mm
Gerry Davies is an artist and senior lecturer in drawing at Lancaster University. His drawings utilise images of emigration, deluges and floods to imagine social and environmental futures radically disrupted by climate change. He has published on contemporary drawing, and his recent book Drawing Investigations: Graphic Relationships with Science, Culture and Environment, co-authored with Sarah Casey, was published by Bloomsbury in July 2020. He lives and works in Lancaster and Dumfries and Galloway.
[The Biscuit Factory]
Published to accompany an exhibition at Brantwood, Coniston, the former country house of John Ruskin, The Coniston Aquatic is a newspaper from the future, contemplating a world where England’s Lake District has become an archipeligo. Davies’s suite of Flood Drawings imagine a submerged Brantwood being explored by a future generation of sub-aquatic researchers.
Includes texts by Gerry Davies, Howard Hull, Sarah Casey, Karen Lloyd, and Christopher Donaldson.
