Justin Hopper

Test Residency 4

We're pleased to welcome Justin Hopper for a test residency at Pasture from 8th March 2023. Justin is an American writer based in the UK, exploring the intersection of landscape, memory and myth. His recent work includes books (The Old Weird Albion, Obsolete Spells) and recordings (Chanctonbury Rings, Swift Wings) as well as site-specific poetry (the Public Record series) and a podcast (Uncanny Landscapes), as well as many non-fiction articles and essays.

Through a year-long, monthly residency at Pasture Project Space, Justin will conduct research, interviews, walks, recordings and writing experiments for The Uncanny Vale - a new book of poetic essays concerning landscape, memory and myth in Dedham Vale and environs. Justin's interest is rooted in the Vale's origins as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty based partly on its representation in the paintings of Constable, Gainsborough and others - making it a reflexively iconic English landscape.