Margery Hilton (also known as Meg Shelton) was an alleged witch buried in 1705 in Woodplumpton, Lancashire, whose body was placed vertically in the ground and restrained beneath a stone, reflecting the violence and superstition surrounding the persecution of marginalised women.

Hollows reworks archival images through a uniform inversion, positioning bodies, monuments, and alchemic forms head-down in the centre of a velvety black printed surface. This repeated gesture draws on the inverted burial of Margery Hilton, establishing a visual language of suspension, containment, and reorientation. The ground is not empty but active, holding each form in a state between descent and fixation. Rather than dissolving into absence, the subjects remain present, but displaced, their orientation destabilised. Through this process, the work frames inversion as both a symbolic and material act.

Photography: Victoria Lucas