Appropriated Materials

Appropriated materials and references not only inform my work but also the decisions and artistic intent of the pictures I take. Showing the narrative elemts that shape my work can also shape how it is interpreted by people.

This collection of materials include quotes, images, art, literary and graphic references from different periods in our history. Showing this work is also meant to make you reflect on the human instinct to fear and destroy the unknown and to be aware when you perpetuate these instincts.

  • llustration of the demon Dantalion from the cover of Sybil Leek's book, Complete Art of Witchcraft

    llustration of the demon Dantalion from the cover of Sybil Leek's book, Complete Art of Witchcraft.

  • Witches presenting wax dolls to the devil, featured in The History of Witches and Wizards (1720)

  • Photograph, Witches' Dance, circa 1921.

  • Sell it.Mary Binney Montgomery in the 1933 short film Oramunde, directed by Emlen Etting

  • AA72 (1972) by Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński

  • Witches' Sabbath, 1798, oil painting on canvas by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya

Your Neighbour was a witch

Witch hunts locations in england. This series of research photographs show the current locations of witch hunt locations in england and how they have changed in today’s age with the use of google maps. This research’s purpose is to show how easily we forget our history, a history that repeats itself throughout the ages.

Colchester Castle, Essex, In Essex alone, around 1,000 people were accused of witchcraft from the 1500s to 1800s, including Elizabeth Lowys, an active cunning woman, who was also among the first women known to have been sentenced to death for ‘murder by magic’ in 1564.

Tuesday’s Market Place, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Two very known executions took place here, first Mother Gabley, who was said to have killed men at sea by boiling eggs to cause trouble at sea, she is said to be one of the first women to have been killed by the 1563 Act Against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts in Norflock. Secondly, Margaret Read who was found guilty of witchcraft and burned alive. It is said that while they burned her, her heart jumped out of her chest and hit the wall leaving a heart shaped burn on the bricks. 

Mother Shipton’s Cave, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, Mother Shipton was said to be a witch and an oracle in the 1530’s who predicted tragedies like the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the greeat fire of London in 1666.