Next week I will have some small works, some that date as far back as 2005, leaving the studio for the first time to be exhibited at Mrs Rick’s Cupboard (thanks for the invitation Craig Fisher): P.V: 12 February 2015 (7 – 9pm) 13 February – 26 March 2015 Open Friday 12-4pm Mrs Rick’s …
Author Archives: Emily
Artists’ Book Market
A Fascist Halloween.
Arts Council Collection
Build-up, a work originally made with the support of Castlefield Gallery for my exhibition there with Hayley Newman in 2013, has been purchased by the Arts Council Collection.
Photomonitor/Sculpture
October: work has begun at the British School at Rome, where I am very happily living and working until the end of the year as the Derek Hill Foundation Scholar (picture of marble cabinet here, which I am currently spending quite a bit of time exploring). Anneka French has written an essay on my Body/Building …
Roma
From 1st October until the end of the year I will be the Derek Hill Foundation Scholar at the British School at Rome. I shall be looking into ruptures of time visible in the buildings of the city as well as the architecture and town planning commissioned by Mussolini and their relationship to Romanitas.
Strange Business & Cities of Ash
I’m very pleased to be in great company in two exhibitions at the moment, ‘Strange Business’ at SYSON, Nottingham and ‘Cities of Ash’ at g39, Cardiff. STRANGE BUSINESS New Watercolour Painting Gordon Dalton, Lois Gardner Sabet, Anneliese Krueger, Yelena Popova, Oliver Raymond-Barker, Beth Shapeero, Emily Speed, Oliver Tirre 24 July – 19 September 2014 STRANGE …
Ambit Magazine #216
A series of my drawings photographed against specially made backdrops appear over ten pages in the next edition of Ambit magazine and on the cover. Issue #216 is available now, buy a copy here.
Littoral Zone
This new installation work is a commission from Plymouth Arts Centre and it opens tonight! The exhibition is on until 25th May so do pop in if you’re in the area. “In thinking about proxemics and repetitive behaviour Speed began this piece of work by visiting the south Devon coastline. Observing beaches as a site …
Sexy films
I made this film. Essentially a valentine’s card, it’s short but has a sexy soundtrack and features the ultimate erotic architecture; several ‘crotch shots’ where walls and ceilings meet in the pavilions in the Giardini della Biennale in Venice. Architecture is the Ultimate Erotic Act, 2014 (2 mins 15 seconds), made especially for Sex Shop. SEX SHOP …