Rohanie Campbell-Thakoordin

Visual Art

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Rohanie is a freelance illustrator and textile artist in Edinburgh, graduating from Intermedia Art at Edinburgh College of Art in 2018, and currently taking on a Masters in Socially Engaged Practice in Museum and Gallery Studies; exploring the role of loitering and killing time in museums as public spaces.

Rohanie’s practice explores rituals as choreography and performance, dancing the dance of bureaucracy and policy, replicating beyond redundancy, creating language and characters from remnants, and ultimately a love of all things Administrative Process.

For Hidden Door’s 2025 Festival Campbell-Thakoordin presents Evolve, Comply, Provide, Evaluate, Collaborate, Establish (ECPECE)

ECPECE is an installation, dedicated to the cultural philosophy of workplace Health and Safety, including the flagship quarterly circular reporting on all things Hi-Vis, and produced for the whole community at the paper factory. Part magazine, part very serious and important manual, part ode to the tedious and universally loathed, ECPECE is a fun read for all.

ECPECE considers what it means when keeping Healthy and Safe in the workplace is implanted in the context of the ginormous former industrial factory; drawing from SAICA’s publicly available employee guidance on workplace Health and Safety, and inspired by a discarded risk assessment from firefighters tackling a blaze on Calton Hill whilst we emptied the Royal High School in 2022 (“Risk: falling rocks hitting heads. Mitigation: wear helmets and look out for falling rocks). 

Find out more at instagram.com/rohaniecantdraw

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