There is a lovely piece about Cardboard Folly on SevenStreets website at the moment. Images are from Rebecca Foster, me and Nick Cass. Thanks very much guys.
Category Archives: exhibitions
Manchester Contemporary
From 28th – 31st October I will be showing ‘Temporary Measure’ with Axis at The Manchester Contemporary art fair. http://www.themanchestercontemporary.co.uk/ Before that, Cardboard Folly will be on display at the Bluecoat from 21st October, so this week will be mainly getting work printed and collating copies. There is so much to do but I have …
Milan
Back from a great week in Milan (with a brief visit to the Architecture Biennale in Venice too!). Thanks to Paola and Gianni for being such great hosts. The exhibition opening was a lovely evening and I met lots of interesting people. Here are a few photos of the small but perfectly formed space below …
Showreel Project Milano
Packing up to go to Milan tomorrow and put up some work in this beautiful shop window as part of Showreel Project. The four previous installments (Teresa Gillespie, Alice Channer, Adam Thompson and Sinta Werner) all looked great and I am looking forward to meeting the curator Paola Caravati after a year or so of …
The Cooperative, Liverpool
From Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th September, I will be resident in the Cooperative space on Renshaw Street in Liverpool. I’ll be there from 1-5pm every day except Saturday, so please come and see me if you can! I’ll be working on my new publication, ‘Cardboard Folly’ and have invited various artists to come and …
Drawing Shed @ PSL
Looking forward to taking part in this at Project Space Leeds in August. If you’re in the area do come and say hi or take part in the late night event on Thursday 12th.. here’s the blurb: Emily Speed will create a cyclic drawing on the exterior of the shed over 4 days. Starting with …
Shows, books and the summer.
Just a reminder that the Liverpool Art Prize is only on for one more week, so do go and see it if you can – I’m not sure whether the work will be kept afterwards as it is just so big. A few projects are being plotted at the moment, but I am currently busy …
Slow Magic
I am currently working on a small bookwork, a collaboration of sorts with Nathan Jones, who has been Poet-in-residence at the Bluecoat in Liverpool over the past year. The piece contains his poem, Slow Magic, written about the experience of looking around an exhibition (one of the same name held at the Bluecoat). Based on …
BUILT
I am in an exhibition at Rogue Project Space in Manchester, which opens this Thursday. Exhibition details: BUILT 1st to 8th April 2010. Opening the 1st of April from 6-8pm Kristy Campbell, Lisa Gorton, Catherine Pudner, Emily Speed, Anna Sikorska BUILT brings together 5 Female artists from across the UK whose practises deal with specific …
Cardboard City
I spent last week and today working with school groups up in Blackpool for Collaborate and Make. I was commissioned by the Grundy Art Gallery there to create this exhibition and it will be on show until January 30th. The children have made some great work, plus some of the buildings are big enough to …