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Ghost Light
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A popular theatrical superstition holds that a light left on in an unoccupied theatre provides the opportunity for its ghosts to perform.
I was inspired by my own stage fright as a parallel to Leith Theatre's uncanny history of laying dormant, first due to the damage inflicted by a parachute bomb in 1941 and then after the venue was closed down again in the 1980s.
In a site specific installation confined to the derelict female dressing room, I aimed to shed new light on found materials associated with my own and the theatre's past to reanimate the silenced space.
Commission for Hidden Door Festival, 2017.
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Fright or Flight, 2017.
WWII parachute in memory of the parachute bomb that silenced Leith Theatre from 7th April 1941 to 23rd June 1961.
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The Skins I've Lived In, 2017.
Peel-off masks with remains of human skin and hair.
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Spirit Transfer (left) and We Shall Return.
Photo transfer on tracing paper of a 1955 photograph first featured in The Scotsman of bomb damage in Leith Theatre alongside board found in situ featuring spirit marker and pencil graffiti on wood.
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Sampler and Alternating Current, 2017.
QR code embroidered with hand-spun cassette tape on white aida fabric. Links to audio work featuring a looped soundbite from the bootleg recording of an AC/DC gig at Leith Theatre in 1969.
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Ghost Light, 2017.
Looped digital transfer of Polavision super 8 home movie from 1982.
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The Messenger, 2017.
Mummified pigeon body behind obscured glass, found in the stalls of Leith Theatre.
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Fright or Flight, 2017.
WWII parachute in memory of the parachute bomb that silenced Leith Theatre from 7th April 1941 to 23rd June 1961.
