Witch Hunt : Delaine Le Bas

5 Sep-1 Nov 2009

Overview

aspex has commissioned Delaine Le Bas to weave and dye these themes through the gallery. In Witch Hunt she paints life-size lines around the witches that in England were never burned as they were on the continent, but drowned, hanged and left in cold open fields. Witches, Gypsies and hunting. In combination these three staple sources of hysteria, excitement and persecution assume peculiarly British airs, and British anti-graces.