Artist/Designer: Pinkie Maclure

Date: 2021

Photographer: Susan Bradbury

“Two Witches (Knowledge is Power)” is a celebration of education for girls, bearing in mind that women who educated themselves were once persecuted as witches. Knowledge is symbolised by a crow using a hooked tool, (which humans can’t do until the age of 8) and a winking owl, which is defecating on a freemasons’ emblem. Such secret societies are an attempt to exclude women and keep them ignorant. The girl on the right is holding a torch which has attracted tiny moths, symbolising enlightenment through studying the natural world. She also has a flagpole with a condom flying from it. 

The girl on the left has an electric guitar and is writing the words ‘Knowledge is Power’ in seven of the world’s most commonly-used languages – Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese and French.