We recorded this episode, the first in our new Enchantment season, live at Red Lion Books in Colchester as part of Sluice [Vernacular] - the latest interation of the artist led organisation's expo.
Our guest for the episode is Hayley Lock, an artist whose interests lie in the occult and its intersection with female otherness. Her chosen cultural artifact is a mystical mirror, reputedly owned by Elizabeth I's court astronomer John Dee, which is currently housed in the British Museum.
Hayley talks about working with and under hypnosis, the Essex witch trials, and finding witch marks in the windmill attached to her house on the Suffolk/Norfolk borders. Not quite coincidentally Witch Marks is also the name of Transition Gallery's exhibition at The Minories in Colchester which took part over Sluice weekend (14-16 June 2024) and featured Hayley's artworks alongside work by six other artists.
