Category: exhibitions

Lost is Found: A Collection of Artists’ Discoveries

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 in Gallery 1. Curated and developed by the Creative Stars, 19 talented young people from the Greater Manchester region, the exhibition examines the themes of rebirth, identity and fragility which are discovered through a range of visual art media including sculpture, photography, and drawing. Continue reading →

Upcoming…

I am in the studio until January now working on some new things.

I’m very happy to say I shall be in a group show ‘Topophobia’ at Danielle Arnaud Gallery (opening January 12th), which tours to the Bluecoat, Liverpool in March and to Spacex, Exeter in May.

I’m also making some work for a project at artist Jo Ball‘s house in London, which will open in late January.

Lastly, I will be making a new version of ‘Inhabitant’ (it was going to happen eventually) for an exhibition called ‘Camp Out’ at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St Louis, summer 2012.

Home at Core Gallery and Sluice Art Fair.

October shall be a busy month, first off is Home at Core Gallery (Deptford)  followed by Sluice Art Fair, (Mayfair) where I shall be exhibiting some drawings with Aid & Abet.

Sluice Art Fair

15th & 16th October 2011, 12 – 10pm

26 South Molton Lane, Mayfair London, W1K 5AB

Home, Core Gallery

7th-15th October  2011
Preview: Thursday 6th October 2011, 6:30-8:30pm

Lucy Austin, Delaine Le Bas, Carolyn Lefley, Graham Crowley,Rosalind Davis, Peter Davis, Kate Murdoch ,Freddie Robins, Emily Speed, Annabel Tilley, Rich White and Rose Wylie

Wirksworth Festival

I’ll be exhibiting some drawings during Wirksworth Contemporary Art Festival this year, in the window of a DIY shop of course. The art part of the festival has been curated by David Bethell, curator of AirSpace Gallery.

The work I’m showing will be drawings of scratch built constructions and these have been inspired by the puzzle gardens and the cottages built by the mine workers in Wirksworth. Using local materials and building on available land, the cottages sit back to back and make a tightly knit, higgledy piggledy community. It’s an amazing place.

It’s open

The exhibition is open! Thanks to everyone who came to the opening. Thankfully I didn’t have to make a speech, but if I had I would have said a huge thank you to everyone at the park and to all of the technicians who helped me, especially Nobby, Dick and James. Dick also for his beautiful photography and for feeding me all week (along Jane, his wife!). Mark Reeves took the fantastic images of the Cabanon on the lake, his website here

I also have to thank Helen Moore for her support and input over the last two years, she’s become a good friend as well as a rock! Lastly, but most importantly, my thanks goes to the curator who worked on my exhibition, Sarah Coulson who has been a pleasure to work with. Her advice, company, humour, fanatical type-setting and enthusiasm have been invaluable. I feel incredibly fortunate to have realised my first solo show with such brilliant support and in the incredible setting of the Bothy Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It’s on until September 18th.

New Editions

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 box.
If I can’t see you, you can’t see me is a four-colour screen print on balsa wood and grey board. Also an edition of 21, this is priced at £70 unframed and there are also two framed prints available at £110.

An Invitation

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 through reference to architecture and the body. She examines buildings, both literally and metaphorically, as physical shelters and as containers for memory, bound with the history of their occupiers.

RSVP online or call 01924 830579

Related events
YSP and Opera North Present Four Seasons: Summer
15.07.11 / 21.15 / £15 / Book online

Fantastical Follies with Emily Speed
23+24.07.11 / Sessions from 10.30 / £4 / Book online

Emily Speed Study Day & Picnic
06.08.11 / 11.00–16.00 / £4 / Book online Some ideas here: http://emilyspeed.tumblr.com/

Supported by Design Centre North
Image: Emily Speed, Cabanon, 2011. Photo Mark Reeves

Dialogos

I’m off to Milan next week to hang this exhibition. For the last few months, the artists have been in dialogue via an online document. This will be made into a book to accompany the show.

DIALOGOS

ASSAB One, Milan

from 21th to 27th may 2011
3-7 pm.

opening 20th may, 7pm.

Alessandro Castiglioni, Antonio Catelani, Sergio Breviario, Andy Boot, Ermanno Cristini, Giovanni Morbin, Giancarlo Norese, Goran Petercol, Fabio Sandri, Luca Scarabelli, Emily Speed, Alessandra Spranzi

Assab One hosts DIALOGOS, a research born without a specific project and an orthodox curatorial scheme, focused on the possibility to develop an artistic practice on ideas that continuously negotiate knowledge, choices and sensitivity. An experience grown among artists who have chosen themselves for coincidence, elective affinities, or trajectories that have crossed their way of doing.

For the occasion a numbered edition will be realised and it will contain all material through which the project has been developed during in the course of time. The publication is completed by various theoretic contributions, among which that by Lorena Giuranna.

I – Dialogue as an aesthetic practice
Dialogos is a project of an exhibition arranged between a performative dynamics and an installation’s intervention. It was born from the possibility of thinking about the space as a time’s formula, or to put it better, the “when” before the “where”, the very moment when it has been discussed and transformed by a relation. Therefore, the dialogue is intended an aesthetic practice, because itself is the element that modulates and structures a time and, then, a space.

II – The story
It’s no accident that this project was born from a common path that Ermanno Cristini, Luca Scarabelli and Alessandro Castiglioni are carrying out since 2008. Dialogos is, in fact, connected to two others important projects: the first one, Roaming, is based on exhibitions that last the ephemeral time of an opening, in order to fluctuate, later on, in the flimsiness of its own documentation, the second one, The Guest and the Intruder , is has been thought as a series of exhibitions and meetings at the Ermanno’s studio

III – Hermeneutical circle
Dialogos is, therefore, kind of a chess game. But, where the artistic act and its trace, the object, burden themselves with a reversible communicability, between artist and artist, artist and artwork, artwork and space, space and spectator, spectator and space, space and artwork, artwork and artist, artist and artist. It is because of this reason that the mechanism made for the project is made of actions, answers, and of the aswers to these answers.

(Translated by Cecilia Guida)

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The Emely Cafe and Reading on wheels

Last week I finished working in Cambridge after building a pod structure on wheels. I had a great time getting on with some constructing and also chatting to artist Rosalie Schweiker, who is running the ‘Emely Cafe’ at Aid & Abet at the moment.

The ‘Reading Space’ that I made was especially for Kobo Abe’s book ‘The Box Man’. The idea is that the reader can get into this space, wheel it around until they find just the right spot and settle down to read. There is a cup holder for coffee too of course and a plush red seat. A hole in the floor allows the user to out one foot through and scoot themselves about flintstones-style.

Rosalie kindly filmed some short snippets of me road-testing the reading pod. Here I use it to steal cake.

Reading Space on The Emely’s vimeo channel

Artist Corinna Spencer has also taken some great photos of the exhibition – see them on Flikr here