Happy to be in this group show this autumn to mark Drawing Room’s inaugural exhibition in their new, purpose-built space. ‘As Drawing Room opens in its first, permanent home after twenty years of nomadic activity, UNBUILD: a site of possibility considers the impact of buildings on our bodies, our minds, our memories and our dreams. The selected …
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On Becoming a Building
On Wednesday 24th Feb, I’ll be presenting a short film on what wearing architectural costumes means in my work as part of ‘A Not Unruffled Surface: Contemporary Sculpture and Dress’ organised by the Henry Moore Institute. The film should be made available after the event, so I will post a link here soon. Tickets are …
‘Rooms Designed for a Woman’ at Tate St Ives
25th January – 3rd May Part of the In Focus programme, which features works that connect with other exhibitions, displays or public projects at Tate St Ives. Rooms Designed for a Woman offers a response to the corresponding Naum Gabo exhibition. Speed’s work reflects Gabo’s interest in architecture as well as his architectural acrylic glass costume designs for …
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Art NW at Tate Liverpool
I am so happy to say that I have been selected for the Art NW opportunity at Tate Liverpool, which means I will be developing work for a solo exhibition there in Spring 2021. A bit more in the Echo HERE. Photo by Roger Sinek for Tate Liverpool
TERRA COTTA
TERRA COTTA contains short texts contributed by Ayo Akingbade, Emma Bolland, Holly Davey, Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Elizabeth Murphy, Emily Speed, Sarah Tripp, Eley Williams and Susannah Worth. You can buy a copy here – they are on sale for the advance copy price of £7 for a short time and will cst £10 full price. …
Façades/Fronts
On Saturday, the live version of Façades/Fronts was performed twice in Aberdeen as part of Look Again Festival. Although it probably seemed like the main deal from the outside, the project has been in development since last October, so it was in fact, a lovely end to a really incredible journey. Building on recent …
Possibilities Club
LIBRARIES ARE AMAZING Over the last year and a half – ish, I have been working on a thing called Possibilities Club at the invite of Maria Brewster under the ‘At The Library’ project. Based in Bootle library I have worked with Christ Church Primary School in Bootle – and their awesome teacher, Miss Ebo …
La Biennale di Venezia
Last week I spent the week in Venice at the invitation of Wave Particle, who are the lead artists and anti-curators on the Scotland + Wales collateral project for the 16th International Architecture exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, which was commissioned by Architecture & Design Scotland. The Happenstance is a project involving lots of …
Innards
A new fountain for the Orangery at Knole.
A Parade of Architectural Commas
I have been a tad lax on updates recently! A few exhibitions have gone up (and come down) in the meantime including (Re)learning to Read, a group show curated by TORQUE at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool Transparency, an Arts Council collection show at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool [Re]construct at the Chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park …