Book of shadows

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Saltwell Park, Gateshead, 2016

A light installation created for Enchanted Parks, Gateshead in Winter 2016. The work explored the witch trials of Newcastle in 1650, herbal and plant lore, persecution and Northumbrian folklore.

A series of paper-cut artworks that utilised light and shadow to create a live shadow-animation that told stories of persecution of women over the ages.

The work retold local and historical stories about witch trials and persecution from the middle ages to modern day.