Ruin Lust, the new exhibition at Tate Britain opens this week. It offers a guide to the fascination that ruins have held for artists from the seventeenth century to the present day. Highlights include: Jane and Louise Wilson’s Azeville 2006 in the opening room of the exhibition - shown next to major works by John Constable (Sketch for ‘Hadleigh Castle’ c.1828–9) and John Martin (The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum); and Laura Oldfield Ford - TQ3382:Tweed House, Teviot Street 2012 (PICTURED) . The exhibition runs from 4 March – 18 May 2014. Tate Britain, Millbank, London, UK 03 March 2014.
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