Witch Hunt is a multimedia project comprising installation, performance and new music

"Distorted Ideologies and contemporary colonialist language continue to this day to extinguish the true inheritance of The Romany people," Delaine's work unashamedly confronts the rhetorical benchmarking by those who have chosen to define our understanding of 'The Real Gypsies' but "This is not a lifestyle choice, it is real life steeped in a cultural history that spans time as well as continents, and that has a language which maintains roots from it's original homeland."

Witchcraft was built around words: as much dependent on lost ways of speaking as on particular incantations. A witch, like a Gypsy, was known by the words she spoke, and for centuries this has provoked unmatched levels of hysteria, excitement and persecution. Their tongues may not be forked, but they threaten invisible borders as outsiders camped within.

Linguistic difference has long been a source of conflict and suspicion, as well as pride, in the British Isles. Welsh children were made to wear shaming knots if they spoke their ancestral tongue at school and, to date, the language of Britain’s hundreds of thousands of Romanies gets no mention on the National Curriculum.