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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
corbett
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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