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Cornerhouse Manchester 14 January – 19 February 2012 Jon Barralough · Mark Beecroft · Andrea Booker · Eileen O’Rourke · Jessa Fairbrother · Richard Proffitt · Lucy Ridges · Emily Speed · Cherry Tenneson Cornerhouse is delighted to present Lost is Found, a group show of nine artists’ work exploring the beauty of the disposed …
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As part of their online magazine Issue 6 – ArtWorkSpace, Artselector have interviewed me about my work and the part that space plays in it.
I found this online today, a coracle named after me by artist Rosalie Schweiker. I am well chuffed. Made during Das Boot, a project in Germany this summer.
Very pleased to be the Guardian’s artists of the week this week.
Next Saturday at Yorkshire Sculpture Park Deputy Curator Sarah Coulson and I will host an informal day of discussion looking at the spaces we inhabit and how they affect us. The study day will include a walking tour round parts of the estate that have influenced my work. A selection of short texts will used …
A very fitting title given how busy things have been – this is a mini residency at Burlington Arts Club taking place this week. Invited by Andrew Bracey and working alongside Kevin Hunt, Frances Disley and Dave Evans, we are spending the week making, playing, experimenting and talking. Yesterday we watched The Shining. There will …
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To accompany the MAKE SHIFT exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture park, I have made two limited edition works for sale there (have a look on their website soon!). Egg is a cast plaster work in an edition of 21 and is priced £120. It’s roughly 3 inches high and comes safely packed in a small wooden …
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Emily Speed: MAKE SHIFT Private View Invitation YSP warmly invites you to the private view of Emily Speed: MAKE SHIFT MAKE SHIFT is the first solo exhibition by Emily Speed, including new sculpture, installation, drawing and photography made in response to YSP’s built environment. Emily’s work explores the temporary and the transient …
Last week was spent at the park once again. With the help of the amazing technicians, I launched the Cabanon (named after Le Corbuiser’s little wooden building he built for himself in the South of France – a modest dwelling – it basically means ‘Hut’ or ‘Cabin’ in French) Aside from torrential rain, thunder and …
An Endless Supply are publishing ‘Soon all your Neighbours Will be Artists‘ in July 2011. The launch will be at Eastside Projects in Birmingham on Saturday 16th July. I have a couple of drawings in it. It’s been co-edited by participants from Aid & Abet, Extra Special People, Spike Associates and g39/WARP.