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Morwenna Potter
jenna corcoran
Jenna Corcoran uses her creative practice to examine the nuances of everyday life, attempting to
make sense of her place in the world. For Hidden Door, she’s showing a series of detailed drawings
documenting where objects have been lost – dropped and forgotten – on the streets of Edinburgh
and Leith.
Morwenna Potter is an interdisciplinary artist working in installation and sculpture.
She is currently manipulating traditional woodworking techniques as a means of
exploring material interests towards the creation of a site-specific work at Leith
Theatre - connecting found wood gathered from Scottish lochs and coastline
into meandering linear forms.
Jill martin Boualaxai
Marion Ferguson &
Jennifer Wicks
Glasgow based artists, Ferguson
and Wicks, work with and find
overlaps between diverse forms of
film, audio, sculpture, drawing and
printmaking.Hidden Door is their
second collaborative installation
and part of an ongoing project
based around the historical and
philosophical ideas of ‘landscape’
and its relationship to experience
and memory.
Lotte Fisher
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tracy mcgovern
Jill Martin Boualaxai is a visual artist who
works predominantly with found objects,
interweaving them with drawn and printed
elements, sound, light and video to create
immersive site specific installations. For
this years Hidden Door festival, Martin-
Boualaxai has diverged her practice into
sculpture and will create a fossilised
computer from hundreds of casts from the
remains of the StorageTek Tape Carousel
1984. A sculptural installation where past
technology becomes embedded in rock and
preserved in petrified form.
“Tenzing is a world of strange
creatures, structures and
landscapes which is being
slowly discovered by Lotte
Fisher’s alter ego, the pioneering
explorer, Freeman MackInesker.
The world has it’s own language and
power structures and is almost as
incomprehensible to Freeman as it is
to us. For her Hidden Door project, Lotte will be
focusing on the city of Islador, a city of huge variety and intrigue.
There will be buildings small and large, and things peeking out
from unexpected places along with hills, rivers, and weird animals
of every kind. She aims to reflect the mélange of creatures and
architectural styles present in our earthly modern-day cities as
well as in those of Tenzing.”
(supported by Morven Macrae)
Tracy McGovern is a painter working
at Garvald Edinburgh. Her
bold style embues the
‘folk’ she paints with
individuality and
character, conveying
both vulnerability
and resilience.
For Hidden Door
Tracy will show
a selection of her
paintings of ‘good
old Scottish folk’ filling
the space with joy and
empathy.
Rachel McBrinn
Rachel McBrinn is an artist working
predominantly with video and site-specific
installation. Her work seeks to interrogate
modes of digital viewing and listening, and
the experience of the real and the recorded.
For Hidden Door she will present a new video
installation working with a technique of removing
the polarising filters from LCD monitors, allowing
the viewer to see the content on-screen only
from specific viewpoints, never able to reach the
source.
Rachel
Hendry
With interests
spanning
animation,
installation,
architecture and
sound, Rachel
Hendry’s work plays
with the boundaries
between real and imagined
space in a cinematic way. For Hidden
Door 2017 she will create an immersive
installation using animation and soundscapes
that explores the screen’s attempt to recreate
the physical and the real.
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