A special screening of Commotion Time by artist Ellie Laycock from the This Fractured Land exhibition currently on display at the Discover Bucks Museum. Laycock’s short film charts the social unrest caused by the Inclosure Acts and subsequent Kett’s Rebellion of 1549. Ellie and Jane Peacock will be chatting to Will Burns about the film, how the themes surrounding land ownership and the ‘right to roam’ are still relevant today, and the wider work and ideas behind the This Fractured Land exhibition. All in the Sports Bar of The King and Queen over a pint.

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This Fractured Land is the fascinating new exhibition currently on display at the Discover Bucks Museum in Aylesbury, five visual artists explore the changing landscape of England from different perspectives.

Inspired by its history and imaginative power, the artists, Lian Chan, Ellie Laycock, Jane Peacock, Ellie Reid and Caroline Thomson, look at the land from a geological, historical, social and mythological point of view. With access to the Museum’s collections, the work that they have created specifically for this exhibition encompasses themes of storytelling, the ancient past, social conflict over land, the uncertain future of climate change and the emotional power of the land itself.

On display alongside their work which includes paintings, prints, photography, sculpture and film will be objects from the collections that inspired them, including paintings by the war artist John Nash, items of crime and punishment, long-buried gold coins and rocks and fossils from the deep past.