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jamie and lewis wardrop david mcdiarmid tim sandys marshall de ’ ath
Jamie’s work is grounded primarily in the integration of live
performance and digital technology. He studied Acting at the
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Jamie draws on a wealth of
experience and skills in the realisation of work from film to
3d animation, projection mapping, installation, theatre and
composing. His work aims for the heartfelt expression of
ideas; striking visual articulation and visionary conceptualism.
Jamie is a director and founder of Glasgow Theatre And Arts
Collective a studio facility that supports professional artists in
Govan, Glasgow. David McDiarmid is a Glasgow-based artist working
predominantly in the fields of painting, model-making and
installation. Born in Paisley, he grew up in Ayr and studied
at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen where he graduated in
Painting. Tim Sandys associates his work with societal and civic
structures. Using actions andinterventions, he carefully
identifies points of strain, failure or tension within city
experience and exploits them. The application of his working
methods reflect ethnographic or qualitative research without
proselytising or conclusion. Sandys employs actions and
interventions blended with a sculptural poetic that promote
an exercise in empathy in the face of impersonal civilian
trappings. These actions and subsequent artefacts tackle
the negated status of the individual functioning in a societal
context. Using both empowering and provocative methods, this
practice flirts simultaneously with deviance and empathy. ‘Sound does not serve, it is.’ Michel Chion
Lewis is a freelance producer and film maker. Currently
working within the film industry, recent credits include
Trainspotting 2 as Locations Coordinator. Lewis is also
producing a short film CLOSE TO THE BONE which has been
commissioned through the Scottish Film Talent Network
Scottish Shorts 2016 scheme.
Be transported to an abandoned cottage on the Outer
Hebrides… Brothers Jamie and Lewis Wardrop combine
striking live visuals, electronic sound and the words of the
great Highland poets to tease out the jarring sense of absence
and the loss of a profound island culture found in a humble
island home that the pair encountered on a trip to the Isle of
Harris. The audience are invited to roam, choosing their own
experience of the work. Each corner simultaneously reveals
carefully curated video and sound layers of the abandoned
home. Lewis plays traditional fiddle songs and Jamie tells
rarely told stories from the island.
Digital technology collides with an old disappearing Scotland
to create a unique and unfolding form of storytelling. There is
much to dwell on, in this meditative performance.
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Since then, he has exhibited widely throughout the country,
most notably as part of the Royal Scottish Academy’s New
Contemporaries show in 2014 and the Sluice Art Fair in London
in 2015 with Interview Room 11. McDiarmid‘s practice seeks
to examine the concept of megalomania in architecture; the
means by which the built environment is often purposefully
designed, constructed and used as a tool for power and
propaganda.
For Hidden Door 2017, he will present a new series of
interactive installations consisting of models, paintings
and objects, that will incorporate elements of the unique
architecture and stunning surroundings of the old Leith
Theatre.
Fresh from his most recent solo exhibition with William
Benington Gallery, London, Sandys will be exhibiting a new
outdoor work created especially for Hidden Door 2017.
Edinburgh-based Marshall De’Ath uses the site-specificity
and emotive power of sound to explore relational narratives
between the self and other in place and time. Through a
practice that is both intensely personal and wholly public –
fostering acts of deliberate and accidental engagement – she
creates place responsive, immersive works that combine
acoustic vocal sound interventions with found objects,
including film. Working in the inter-disciplinary field of
sound, visual and performance art she draws influence from
pioneering minimalist musicians - Terry Riley, Steve Reich and
David Sylvian – sound and film theorist Michel Chion and the
multi-disciplinary New York Judson Theatre group.
For HD17, Marshall De’Ath is generating a new site-responsive
sound and film work in Leith Theatre’s long-abandoned
projection room, combining performed sound, recorded in the
theatre, and the infinite narrative possibilities inherent in the
act of projection.