Invited Artist Kristina Chan is thrilled to present Stage Right, a print installation for the 4th Edition Hidden Door Arts Festival Scotland.

Edinburgh, as a city renowned for its letterpress and lithographic excellence, reinforces the relevance of printmaking within the work and the site. Printmaking was the first medium of publication, reproduction, large scale representation. It gave history the Gutenberg Press, first Bible, literacy, dissemination of ideas, philosophies, revolution and reconciliation; in its ink and its reliefs is our very history engraved.

Stage Right will serve as a reflection upon the theatre’s cultural history, of printmaking, and of the city itself. The installation will be exhibited along the length of the right balcony, overlooking the main auditorium. It will be a triptych nearly 9 meters in length. It will serve as homage to the once-abandoned Leith Citadel Theatre: its resurrection from dereliction to once again take centre stage, both metaphorically and literally, to today’s emerging artists.