MARK DIACO

ARTIST · ACTOR · FOUNDER OF DOOR

Holding the DOOR.

Twenty years standing at the door of nightclubs, deciding who gets in.
A lifetime as the artist told to wait outside.
Now, in the age of AI, he's building a DOOR where artists hold the keys.

See the work Enter DOOR

Melbourne / Global

01 — Holding the door

Every artist tells their story with a single line drawn by the human hand.

At DOOR we’d like to keep it that way.

02 — The Face at the Door

Before the
company,
the work.

The Face at the Door →

Actor before anything else. Then the drawing, the writing, the directing: whatever the story needed that week.

Trained in New York, made in Melbourne, on stages, on sets and on the page.

03 — Rite of Passage

EIGHT DOORS TO GET HERE.

A bedroom floor covered in comic books. A design course he walked out of. An acting school in New York. A theatre company built from nothing, a production company, a velvet rope, and a son.

The eighth door is DOOR.

Walk the doors →

04 — The Door Policy

So he built a DOOR.

Artist · This is a call

The machines learned to draw by studying artists, and nobody knocked first. DOOR works the other way round: an artist is asked before anything is captured, named on everything it becomes, and paid when it's used.

"Artists are like ants. We find our way through the cracks. This time we keep our skin in the game. Literally."— Mark Diaco

The Door Policy →

05 — DOORMAN

The story that opened DOOR.

A stage play, then a film script, then a graphic novel. When the pandemic shut down the film, it was back to the drawing board, literally. Two years spent drawing Melbourne planted the seed for DOOR.

The Edition → Soft-cover sets limited to 25

06 — Knock

Knock.
The DOOR opens.

DOOR is invitation-only. If you're an artist, a patron, or a collaborator who wants in — knock.

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