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More pics from the Edge of Matter exhibition 👀

Last weekend nearly 1000 visitors came to explore The Paper Factory and the work of dozens of artists. Thank you to everyone who made it down, and to our wonderful artists and volunteers ❤️

In collaboration with Visual Arts Scotland

We're open today and tomorrow, 11am-4pm, for the final two days of Edge of Matter, a stunning new exhibition of artwork from dozens of visual artists.

Get yourself down to The Paper Factory - just a 5 min walk from tram, train and bus routes from Edinburgh City Centre.

#DoorsOpenDay

If you're exploring #DoorsOpenDay this weekend, pop by The Paper Factory in Edinburgh - we've got a huge visual art showcase in an abandoned industrial site! 🏭🚪

We're open 11am - 4pm today and tomorrow
1 Turnhouse Road EH12 8NP
FREE entry

Details: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

Lovely opening last night of Edge of Matter, a showcase of 40-ish artists presented by @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social and Visual Arts Scotland at The Paper Factory on Turnhouse Road, Edinburgh.

Running all weekend, 11am-4pm, take a take a tram to Edinburgh Gateway. hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

A wonderful opening night for our showcase with Visual Art Scotland - thanks everyone who came along, and to @bellfieldbrewery.bsky.social for the refreshments! 🍻

Edge of Matter is on until Sunday, 11am-4pm at The Paper Factory, Turnhouse Road, Edinburgh

Details: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

Visual Art Showcase opening tonight, 5-7pm!

With bus, tram and train connections within a 5 minute walk of our venue, there are lots of options for getting here - check out travel info here: hiddendoorarts.org/venue/

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept

Zeena Wright-Al Tai is a multimedia artist and maker working across prop fabrication and textiles. Her practice blends mixed media to create fantastical environments and narrative scenes that explore themes of surrealism, solitude, folklore, and neo-colonialism.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

San Zhang is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist born in Spain and living in Scotland. Existing between mythologies, languages, and cultural ghosts, they build a world inhabited by hybrid beings such as aliens, mutants and queer deities.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Ruaridh Litster-Campbell is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Glasgow. Working in paint, sculpture and metalwork, he examines the process of self documentation, how we storify events and the act of repeated recollections.

Rosie Hodgson Smith uses contemporary techniques to present speculative futures. Functioning as screens and palimpsests of the digital image age, her illusionary paintings are layered with internet archaeology utilising suggestions of image, infrastructure and user interfaces.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept

Niamh Finnigan creates sculptures and “3D” paintings from materials such as cardboard, clay and discarded items. These scrap materials are assembled into crude, deliberately garish sculptures then disguised with traditional mediums such as oil pastel and paint.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept

Martha Williams' work is an experimental merging of traditional craft, construction techniques and contemporary sculptural practice. It explores how objects can become uncanny subversions of themselves, containing the potential for playful narrative & performance.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Maria McStay is an artist and sculptor from Northern Ireland, based in Edinburgh. Her practice uses ceramics, sound and site-specific materials to create installations inviting reflective engagement with the environment.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Liz McNeill applies repeated cycles of painting and modulated layering to generate large scale painting and prints. Her current work examines the concept of moral injury, a topic of increasing global concern.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Through her sculptural practice, Argentinian artist and practice-based researcher Irene Aldazabal experiments with organic materials and seeks to stay close to living organisms such as fungi or plants, attempting to learn from and with them.

Queer, neurodivergent sculptor and textile artist Holly Booth conjures installations where fabric mutates into flesh, into architecture, into threat.

Catch this stunning work at The Paper Factory 25-28 Sept as part of our Visual Art Showcase in collaboration with Visual Arts Scotland.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Fae Ross mythologises the body, embracing it as a site of transformation and transgression. She creates dark, feminised landscapes which vitalise their inhabitants / performers.

More info: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Textile artist Fae Rogers works with themes of the body and the bed in soft sculptural forms. Fae repurposes fabrics and uses sewing techniques to create interactive artworks that encourage audience participation.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Glasgow-based sculptor Esther Stone graduated with a 1st class degree from Glasgow School of Art, where she gained a love of large scale, steel sculptures. Interactive works and workshops are a constant focus of her practice.

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Eilidh Appletree’s practice is rooted in activism. Through the process of mould making and casting, her sculptural works are reminiscent of the everyday.

More info: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-showcase-at-the-paper-factory-25-28-september

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Dora Zoi’s practice attunes to the rhythms, resistances, and poetics of forces such as gravity, space, time, and kinship across species.

More info: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-showcase-at-the-paper-factory-25-28-september

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🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Claire Marion Black’s practice intersects ritual, film, sculpture and photography to create immersive installations that blend dream-like fictions of the subconscious with the body and landscape.

Details: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

38 artists have been selected by Hidden Door and Visual Arts Scotland to feature in a stunning new exhibition at The Paper Factory from 25-28 Sept.

The creatives will transform the building with work that defies the limits of traditional galleries.

Details: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

Also on the bill tonight, award-winning writer, theatre-maker and performance poet RJ Hunter writes with urgency yet empathy, known for her blistering performances.

The live performances start at 5pm and go through to 10pm - the perfect way to spend your Sunday evening 😎🍺🎶

Kicking off tonight's Bellfield Brewery #TaproomSessions at 5pm, multi award-winning musician, comedian, and poet @joshcakemusic.bsky.social brings distinct rhythms and hilarious observations with a captivating and unique performance style.

Tickets: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

This Sunday at the #TaproomSessions - 5 live acts from 5pm 🎸🎤

Edinburgh synth pop trio Thundermoon create a gender-bending synth sound with spacey harmonies and retro riffs.

"Well-crafted layers of synths reminiscent of an upbeat 80s classic" - Music Mag

www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

This Sunday, get your fix of dark, experimental pop with Doom Scroller, bringing the trio's unique and captivating blend of sounds to the Bellfield Taproom.

"Bold, dynamic and packed with ideas - it all really works rather beautifully together" - The Skinny

5 live acts from 5-10pm 🎸🎤

This Sunday, our second @bellfieldbrewery.bsky.social Taproom Session welcomes award-winning singer/songwriter Mike McKenzie @mikemckenzieonline.bsky.social.

His laid back, inclusive shows have proved a smash with audiences around the UK and beyond.

Tickets: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

We loved last night's Taproom Sessions - huge thanks to the performers, everyone who helped out, everyone who came down and of course @bellfieldbrewery.bsky.social for hosting us ❤️

We're back this Sunday with 5 more acts: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...

Photos by James Duncan

TONIGHT from 5pm 👀🍺🎤

We kick off today's Taproom Session at Bellfield Brewery with acclaimed spoken word poet Katie Ailes, whose work explores themes of identity, migration and compassion through a fiercely feminist lens.

Live performances until 10pm

Tix: www.citizenticket.com/events/hidde...