Running from 21st October until 18th February 2024, Radical Landscapes will explore the natural world as a space for artistic inspiration, social connection, and political and cultural protest
William Morris Gallery has announced a new exhibition entitled Radical Landscapes. Running from 21st October until 18th February 2024, the exhibition will explore the natural world as a space for artistic inspiration, social connection, and political and cultural protest through the lens of William Morris, one of Britain’s earliest and most influential environmental thinkers, who was born in Walthamstow.
Organised in collaboration with Tate Liverpool, the exhibition will display work spanning two centuries and feature more than 60 works by artists including JMW Turner, Claude Cahun, Hurvin Anderson, Derek Jarman, Jeremy Deller and Veronica Ryan.
William Morris Gallery says the exhibition will reflect on how British landscapes have been read, accessed and used across social, class and racial lines, as well as the current global climate emergency, starting from Morris’ own relationship to and love for the land.
Through the works on display and an expansive public programme, visitors will be encouraged to engage with the Gallery’s surrounding borough of Waltham Forest, once a rural outpost and now an urban London borough, where Morris was born and which shaped his environmental and political views.
The exhibition will have five sections. One of these will shed light on the subcultures and communities that protested the increasingly politicised and militarised treatment of land in the second half of the 20th century, while the exhibition will draw parallels with more recent climate protests and political conflicts.
An expansive public programme, organised in collaboration with local artists, campaigners, foodbanks and allotments, will run alongside the exhibition, and expand beyond the Gallery’s walls into the wetlands, forests and green spaces of Waltham Forest. The programme will invite participants to reassess their relationship with local landscapes and respond to the climate crisis.
A first version of the exhibition was shown at the Tate Liverpool from 5th May to 4th September 2022.
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