Leave No Stone Unturned emerges from archival research into Margery Hilton, an alleged witch buried in 1705 in Woodplumpton, Lancashire. Using material from Lancashire Archives and a site visit to her grave, the work reconfigures a found photograph of the granite boulder said to restrain her body beneath the ground. The image focuses on the stone as a marker of control, where burial becomes an act of containment and inscription.
The work draws attention to the grave as a constructed void, shaped through the positioning of the female body. This inverted interment becomes a metaphor for the regulation and suppression of marginalised bodies, linking historical acts of violence to ongoing structures of control. Through the manipulation of archival imagery, Leave No Stone Unturned frames absence as an active condition, where what lies beneath the surface continues to exert pressure on the present.