“It’s 7am and a couple of thousand people are standing, shivering, on Salisbury Plains in Wiltshire, England. It’s as dark and possibly as cold and wet as it was just before dawn 5000 years ago, when the ancients gathered here to celebrate the winter solstice: the renewal of the light after this, the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere.”

Article on Jeremy Deller’s Sacrilege artwork, an inflatable model of Stonehenge, for The Australian.