Works from The Witchcraft Series: history, development, and thinking behind the works
In 1682, three women of Bideford, Devon were hanged for witchcraft in Exeter, England. Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards and Mary Trembles are the last people known to have been executed for witchcraft in England.
Textile artist Anne Jackson, inspired by a monument to the dead women, is engaged in an art project of research & commemoration, also exploring the metaphors surrounding witchcraft, in history and contemporary culture.
She researches individual witch trials, and European witch-trial history. Her method of working is a hybrid technique of Gobelins tapestry and knotting. She aims to create works which are visually rich, with undercurrents of thought-provoking darkness.
Her talk will be about “The Witchcraft Series”, its history and development, and the thinking behind the works.www.annejackson.co.uk
Image:Anne Jackson, UK: ‘Saducismus Triumphatus: Mr. Glanvil’s Cabinet of Curiosities” (Elizabeth Stykes, Bayford, 1664),’ 2021, 167 x 144 cm from the Witchcraft Series; cotton, linen, synthetic yarns, artist’s own technique, knotted tapestry.
Bio
Anne Jackson was born in New York City, and raised in the US, before moving to Scotland where she completed a degree in Mediaeval History at St. Andrews University. During her studies she discovered a passion for textiles as an art form. She attained a Postgraduate Certificate in Constructed Textiles from Middlesex Polytechnic (University), before moving to the rural West Country of England, where she established her studio and still lives & works. She has exhibited widely across Europe, as well as in the UK, USA and Australia. Her work is held in a number of public & private collections in Europe, the USA and the UK.
Curated & Hosted by
Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She lives in Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesvos.
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