News and upcoming events.
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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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 …
A new fountain for the Orangery at Knole.
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 …
I’m so pleased that the work I made in Texas back in October is going to get an outing at Exeter Phoenix in January. EMILY SPEED – BODY BUILDERS Fri 20 Jan 2017 – Sat 04 Mar 2017 | Gallery open from 10am-5.30pm daily (excluding Sundays) | free Here’s some more info: The exhibition is the first …
Main Space/Parkade/U-Hall June 3, 2016 to July 9, 2016 Solo exhibition: In BODY/BUILDING, ‘Groviglio (Tangle)’ is a two-channel film that considers the city (in this case, Rome) as a kind of palimpsest and the layers of activity from millions of inhabitants that have been erased, rewritten, replaced and overbuilt. A series of photographs and a …
Last month I spent two weeks at Troy Town Art Pottery working on some new ceramic pieces as a collaboration with Ben Cove. Updates to follow when they have been taken out of the kiln (if they all survive..) I was really pleased to show a drawing from my Body/Building series and some artists’ books with …
On for two more weeks – Indefinable Cities at Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, reviewed by Dominika Mackiewicz here. More about the exhibition itself here.
Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent April 10th – May 16th, 2015 A group exhibition, exploring the development of cities worldwide, and in particular the way that artists are responding to and documenting Cities in flux, and more; how artists impact on their environments and the regeneration of Cities. Presenting works of 6 UK and Japanese artists, …
As it’s International Women’s Day it seems like a good time to mention that I shall be off to the states in May and June for six weeks to work on a Rosendale Cultural Crossroads Public Art Residency in New York State with Women’s Studio Workshop. I did one of my first ever residencies at …