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This year's exhibition reveals how Turner captured environmental and social developments that would go on to change Britain and the world's climates forever. This will be the first exhibition dedicated to this subject. Highly attuned to changes in the landscape and atmosphere, Turner captured them in his ground-breaking paintings, drawings and engravings. Through his art, he documented plumes of smoke, burning furnaces, urban sprawl, deforested landscapes, overfishing and extreme weather. The exhibition will also seek to connect the changes that Turner was observing and capturing in beautiful works of art, with changes to the environment that we are currently seeing.

This exhibition is possible thanks to generous loans from Tate, and sponsorship from Hallett Independent, Kirker Travel and private individuals.

Exhibition included in the admission ticket.