mark haddon

Mark Haddon is an artist and designer based in Edinburgh .

His artwork attempts to explore the boundary between ‘ waking ’ and the unconscious , rational and irrational . For Hidden Doors Mark will make a wooden relief and related works . The installation draws , in part , on the myth of Orion .

Joseph Calleja

Jack McCallum

The primary focus of Jack ’ s practice hinges on the material fabric of the built urban environment . He explores how we present ourselves through the trace material elements we produce within the context of the city . Consequently the work he produces almost exclusively exists and remains in the public sphere . For Hidden Door Festival Jack is producing four panels that slot into the floor of the theatre , these panels attempt to describe the historic and now continuing footfall and use of the space .

sarah calmus

Camila Cavalcante

Camila Cavalcante is a visual artist from Brazil interested in the social and sentimental perception of art . She uses documentary photography intertwined with embroidery to create a place in which the idea of ‘ private ’ and ‘ public ’ overlap and complement each other ; where nature , buildings and bodies share the same scars .

Sarah Calmus is an interdisciplinary artist and creator of large-scale immersive installations , working across a multitude of mediums from glass and light , to social intervention and sound . Calmus allows for , and encourages direct participation and interaction with her artwork . For Hidden Door 2017 , she will transform two spaces which operate in tandem , in dialogue and interacting only when in the presence of a participator .

Rachel turner

‘ Paint is rarely seen as an object itself . It adheres to what it hides and essentially becomes the hidden object ’. Leith Theatre ’ s derelict condition has inspired Calleja to take a site specific approach to his project depositum ( http :// josephcalleja . co . uk / depositum ). He reconsiders paint not in aesthetic or expressive terms , yet how the work unfolds , an unintended and unplanned aesthetic seems to emerge -and emotive expression makes way for the expression of an idea .

Rachel Turner is an artist that works with drawing , installation and video . For Hidden Door Rachel will make a film showing slow burning devices on Blackness shoreline , Linlithgow .

Ian Dodds

At the age of seven Ian would while away long summer afternoons playing under an old railway bridge where the rusted rails curved away into a bronze haze of woodbine and briar , no train had passed under the bridge in a long while . This one day as he scraped away at the old bricks his hand slipped , his mind floated , needles of golden neutrinos skewered through him with a crack , straight from the sun . Suddenly the air was sweeter , his eyesight clearer and sharp as glass , so much so that he had to pull his glasses off . He looked around in wonder and to his surprise he found the tips of his fingers , up to the second joint , inside the brickwork , bonded into its hard baked atoms . He pulled hard but it hurt to pull , so he waited . This was all a long time ago in the North East and no one came by . He tried scraping away at the mortar around the bricks but sharp pains shot down his legs with every gouge . Shifting scratches of light drifted past , seed heads in the swell , bumbled by the warmth breathing out from the bricks . There was nothing to do but stay very still and gaze at the small things close by in this floating world . He looked closer and closer , into the light and into the shadows .