Witch in a Bottle Series, 2025
I have been developing a body of work around an artefact that is held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK called the ‘witch in a bottle’ which was found in Surrey, England in 1912.
This series of work is inspired by an artefact called ‘witch in a bottle’, currently held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, which was found around 1912 in Sussex, England. I have had a long-lasting fascination with this object since I was a child, as I would stare into the shiny reflective bottle wondering what is actually inside? I have returned to it now in my life as I attempt to answer this question in my work. I have used toy ‘geo-magnets’ and balloons in order to try and fit a witch in a bottle and physically 're-create' this artefact as a form of research and understanding. Through this I created a logic whereby the bottle is the balloon and the magnets are the witch. I am examining boundaries, categories and what freedom in restriction can look like through a queer feminist lens. I am using painting as both a legitimation and ‘artefac-ting’ of queer experience.
Peck o’ Trouble
Oil and acrylic on linen.
200 x 140cm
Witch in a Bottle Series 1
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm
Witch in a Bottle Series 3
Oil, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets on hand-carved stained wood panels.
30 x 30cm
Oil and acrylic on linen
200 x 140cm
2025
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm
2025
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm
2025
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm
2025
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm
2025
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm
2025
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm
2025
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm
2024
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm
2024
Oil and acrylic on wood panel
30 x 41cm
2024
Oil and acrylic on wood panel
30 x 41cm
2024
Oil and acrylic on wood panel
30 x 41cm
2024
Oil and acrylic on wood panel
30 x 41cm
2025
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm each
2024
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm each
2024
Oil and acrylic on wood panels.
30 x 41cm each
2024
Oil, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets on hand-carved stained wood panels.
30 x 30cm
2025
Oil, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets on hand-carved stained wood panels.
30 x 30cm
2025
Oil, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets on hand-carved stained wood panels.
30 x 30cm
2025
Oil, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets on hand-carved stained wood panels.
30 x 30cm
2025
Oil, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets on hand-carved stained wood panels.
30 x 30cm
2025
Balloons, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets and screws on found wood panels.
31 x 15cm each
2025
Balloons, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets and screws on found wood panels.
31 x 15cm
2025
Balloons, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets and screws on found wood panels.
31 x 15cm
2025
Balloons, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets and screws on found wood panels.
31 x 15cm
2025
Balloons, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets and screws on found wood panels.
31 x 15cm
2025
Balloons, acrylic, paper, latex, geo-magnets and screws on found wood panels.
31 x 15cm
2025
Oil, acrylic and latex on canvas.
120 x 80cm
2025
Oil, acrylic and latex on canvas.
120 x 80cm
2025