#HiddenDoor2015 Opens – Phew!

#HiddenDoor2015 Opens – Phew!

#HiddenDoor opens today, Friday 22nd May, with ‘…a unique mix of visual art, music, theatre, dance and cinema.’ What is Hidden Door? Hidden Door is a not for profit arts festival that takes place in abandoned or hidden places in Edinburgh. This year...

My Grey Spell – continuing the set up for #HD2015

I have a sore back today, grey speckled face and wrists and a niggling worry about hanging my work in the #lockerroom off the #blue corridor in the #secretcourtyard  – but hum ho, another day. The positives: I now have grey walls (please don’t need another...

#HD2015 in the deep end of process

As the set up days for #HiddenDoor Festival 2105 rapidly approach I am physically involved in dunking, dropping, mixing and ‘draw-ing’ tests to see what works as I scale up and up. My final college review brought up issues of audience participation, making...
#HD2015 – ‘Draw’-ing(s) in fluid progress

#HD2015 – ‘Draw’-ing(s) in fluid progress

‘Draw’-ing(s) from the secondary meaning of the word Draw: 2. To bring, take, or pull out, as from a receptacle or source: to draw water from a well. Following the site specific work I made for last years Hidden Door Festival I am continuing to develop the theme of...
#TYA a dedicated artist book

#TYA a dedicated artist book

I was so excited to receive my image book from PhotoBox, although too late to submit for college I now have a visual record of the process I went through during my artist residency at #TYA (Tweeddale Youth Action, Peebles) as part of the Working Perspectives Project...