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.