Locust Years considers the enduring myth of a pastoral rural England in the context of overlapping ecological and political crises.
Pictures of the characteristic vernacular architecture, cultural heritage, natural phenomena and landforms of lowland England are brought into dialogue to tease out and find some articulation of the eerie dissonance between its idyllic facade and the reality of inexorable decline.
Drawing on the web of histories, mythologies and ecologies that underpin the fraught and often dark relationship between land and nationhood, these pictures seek to give form to the historical forces that have driven the simultaneous destruction and idealisation of rural landscapes.
