To Gypsyland

Gypsies and Travellers are viewed as part of the pastoral landscape and countryside romanticism. To Gypsyland is where Delaine takes audiences to travel with her into this unknown territory bringing to light the cultural and historical geography of a people who are often mythologised and demonised; changing perception of where Gypsy culture and history is kept and dispelling and unpacking the mythologies of Gypsies and Gypsy lifestyle. On her journey Delaine also considers ideas of identity, slavery and trafficking, immigration and migration, shared histories, the right to roam, nomadic urban living, the ways in which we use urban spaces and how spaces are becoming increasingly contested within our contemporary cities. This not only affects Gypsy or Travelling communities but all of us in an increasingly protective, surveilled, privitised and nationalistic societies.