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Valerie Reid
Valerie Reid is a visual designer working mainly with print & digital design and art installations for performance , interested in exploring crossartform and interactive practice in conceptual , abstract and personal ways . For Hidden Door Valerie will repair a space in Leith Theatre using the Japanese principle of kintsugi ; celebrating the beauty in broken things .
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John Hall
( supported by Morven Macrae ) John is an abstract artist working at Garvald Edinburgh . He creates colourful , multilayered paintings . Glimpses of underlying marks hint at hidden depth . For Hidden Door a number of John ’ s pieces will be exhibited together creating new relationships between the works and will asks questions of how colour affects us .
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DAvid martin
David Martin creates paradoxes and contradictions within the painted image , encouraging the viewer to question the truth and logic of what they are seeing , bringing about an uncertain encounter . David also happens to be the creative director and founder of Hidden Door .
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Miriam Mallalieu
Miriam Mallalieu is an artist working mainly in sculpture and print . Her practice is interdisciplinary , drawing on ideas and influences from philosophy and literature . Recently , her work has been questioning ideas of structure and order , undermining ideas of absolute knowledge . For Hidden Door 2017 , Miriam will be exhibiting a new body of work related to J . L . Borges ’ s Celestial Emporium of Benevolent
Knowledge .
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kat Kjellstom
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As part of the institute for
l ! ghter living ! ™ ( ill ! ™ ), Kat researches personal development using her self as a tool for her unusual investigations . At Hidden Door , Kat will be sharing her expert tips on how best to live authentically in what promises to be the “ Performance of a Lifetime ” ( literally ). Main Auditorium , 28 May 5:00 pm .
DAVE house
Dave House is an Edinburgh-based electronic musician , sound artist and graphic designer who creates soundscapes from algorithms , field recordings and everyday sounds . Dave has made recordings of every dusty corner of the Leith Theatre and will present a unique composition / installation that marks the buildings melancholy-yet-beautiful state of disrepair while hinting at its heritage and future .
jennifer clews
Jennifer Clews graduated from the Sculpture and Environmental Art department at The Glasgow School of Art in 2013 . For the Hidden Door Festival 2017 , she will playfully explore the sculptural qualities of video to respond to The Old Leith Theatre site .
Martin Elden and Morwenna Kearsley
Martin Elden and Morwenna Kearsley are based in Glasgow . Elden ’ s practise examines relationships to visual communication , with a focus on typography and letterform . Kearsley ’ s practice considers the physical and psychological properties of image with voice through photography , moving image and sound . For Hidden Doors , they collaborate on a site-specific installation investigating fear of empty spaces .
Liam J McLaughlin
Liam J . McLaughlin is primarily a video installation artist . His work is concerned with notions of the internalisation of culture and its effect on the individual , looking specifically at the role of religion and the isolation of rural communities . For the Hidden Door Festival McLaughlin will be showing an immersive video installation .
olivia turner
Olivia Turner is a painter interested in spatial awareness and how the viewer navigates their way around and through spaces . Hidden Door is going to give her a chance to create a site specific install . She would like to create a more physical space , one that can be walked around and almost within . A space that is determined by light and shadows and the way in which you approach it .
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