July 26th, 2010
Looking forward to taking part in this at Project Space Leeds in August. If you’re in the area do come and say hi or take part in the late night event on Thursday 12th.. 
here’s the blurb: Emily Speed will create a cyclic drawing on the exterior of the shed over 4 days. Starting with proposals/sketches for structures – reminiscent of bulidings – which are prevalent in her work, Speed will then explore the physical impossibilities of these structures and the drawing will change to show construction, collapse and repair before perhaps collapsing again.
More info on the PSL website
and the Drawing Shed blog
Tags: drawing, Leeds, Project Space Leeds, PSL
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July 14th, 2010
Last Friday was the launch at of ‘A House Like Me’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The event was to mark the end of my year as bursary holder for the Feiweles Trust at the Park. I have compiled the book and it is a mix of digital printing with screen printed dividers.
It was a lovely day and great to get some feedback on this thing that has been filling my house with piles of paper for weeks.
‘A House Like Me’ is intended for educators wanting to work with conceptual art and is based around the themes in my own practice and the projects I have been doing in schools since last September. The book is not for sale, but a pdf version will be online soon, I will post a link as soon as it’s available. Some images can be viewed in the bookworks section on this website.
ISBN 978-1-871480-85-6, Yorkshire Sulpture Park, 2010. Digital print on paper with screenprinted, card dividers. Digital printed folder.
Tags: Artists' Books, new work, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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July 2nd, 2010
Just a reminder that the Liverpool Art Prize is only on for one more week, so do go and see it if you can – I’m not sure whether the work will be kept afterwards as it is just so big.
A few projects are being plotted at the moment, but I am currently busy finishing my year as bursary holder at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I am making a limited edition book to mark the end of the year, so next week will be full of paper cuts and swear words.
The end of July and August are marked for the studio and some small projects, so looking forward to getting cracking on some new work.
http://www.liverpoolartprize.com/
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June 11th, 2010
This Saturday and Sunday I will be taking part in Liverpool Open Studios and opening up my space at Royal Standard to the public.
LIVERPOOL OPEN STUDIOS INFO
Please drop in if you’re in the area, biscuits and tea will be served!
Directions on the website: http://www.the-royal-standard.com/
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June 6th, 2010
I am currently working on a small bookwork, a collaboration of sorts with Nathan Jones, who has been Poet-in-residence at the Bluecoat in Liverpool over the past year. The piece contains his poem, Slow Magic, written about the experience of looking around an exhibition (one of the same name held at the Bluecoat).
Based on a Turkish map fold, the multiple has a screen-printed grey board cover and unfolds, revealing the poem slowly, the creases of the paper acting as illustrations. It’s still very much under-construction (printing tomorrow) but will be available in a limited editon.
The work will be part of
Mistranslations
An exhibition of artworks drawn from Nathan Jones’ period as Poet in Residence at the Bluecoat
16th – 26th June, 2010
Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station, the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool
featuring print, video and illustrative work by
Scott Spencer
Emily Speed
Philip Marsden
Markus Soukup
Sarah Nicolls
Neil Keeting
and Andre Guedes
Tags: Artists' Books, exhibition, Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station, Nathan Jones, poetry, the Bluecoat
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June 6th, 2010
Some images of the Liverpool Art Prize exhibition can be seen on the website of McCoy-Wynne, photographic sponsors of the prize.
http://www.mccoywynne.co.uk/lap_2010/
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June 5th, 2010
Vision magazine have featured ‘Inhabitant’ in their discovery section in the May issue. I just received a copy in the post today and it’s a lovely magazine, full of gorgeous images on matt paper; the best kind.
Unfortunately I can’t translate the text, but I’m guessing it is pretty similar to that on my website.
http://www.youthvision.cn/
Tags: China, Inhabitant, Linz, Vision magazine
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June 1st, 2010
I am currently putting the final touches to my section of the Liverpool Art Prize exhibition at Metal, Liverpool.
The exhibition opens on Thursday evening 6-9pm, to attend RSVP to rsvp@liverpoolartprize.com. This is the same email to respond to if you would like to attend the awards ceremony on Wednesday 30th June 6-8pm. You can go in my place if you like!
http://www.liverpoolartprize.com/
http://www.metalculture.com/
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June 1st, 2010
a-n commissioned a piece of writing from me about how artists make a living, based around some of the artists I met during my time in Linz last year. The research paper and artists’ profiles were published in May, sorry I’ve been a little slow to get this on here!
You can read it here (although some content is only available to subscribers I’m afraid)
http://www.a-n.co.uk/publications/article/626650/626643
Tags: a-n, artists, Linz, writing
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May 9th, 2010
Royal Standard will be taking part in No Soul for Sale, a festival of independents
at Tate Modern next weekend.
“To celebrate Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, the gallery will host No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents. The festival will bring together over 70 of the world’s most exciting independent art spaces, non-profit organizations and artists’ collectives, from Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro, to take over the iconic Turbine Hall with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge arts events, performances, music and film.”
Can’t wait to see it all…. and try to fit in every gallery in London in two days…
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