Here it is finally; the resulting animation from the drawing I did at PSL in August. It clearly has issues, like some wobbles, focus and other things, but as a first attempt I am going to try and let those things go and just enjoy the destruction.
Drawing Shed week 5: Emily Speed
There are also some images of the project and collaborative drawing evening at PSL on their Drawing Shed blog
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 proposals/sketches for structures – reminiscent of bulidings – which are prevalent in her work, Speed will then explore the physical impossibilities of these structures and the drawing will change to show construction, collapse and repair before perhaps collapsing again.
Drawing Paper (a newspaper on drawing) is having a pre-launch this Saturday. The brainchild of Mike Carney, an artist working at Royal Standard, the paper will be free and features drawing from 20 artists, myself included. The pre-launch of #1 is from 5-8pm at Royal Standard Studios, Liverpool this Saturday (8th May).
The first issue brings together a diverse selection of work from 20 artists including Jon Barraclough, Mike Carney, Baptiste Croze, Jemma Egan, Henry Finney, Madeline Hall, Natalie Hughes, Harry Lawson, Hamish Mclain, Sarah McKevitt, Flis Mitchell, Bernadette O’Toole, Richard Proffitt, James Quin, Laura Robertson, Emily Speed, Topia Gould, Sam Venables, Alan Williams and Ki Yoong.
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Unit 3, Vauxhall Business Centre, 131 Vauxhall Rd, Liverpool L3 6BN
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Liverpool, United Kingdom
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The A Curriculum exhibition at A Foundation had it’s opening last Friday and happily the Director liked it so much, he has decided to extend it to be open Fridays and Saturdays until 22nd May, alongside the ‘Economy of the Gift exhibition there, so please go down and have a look if you can!
It is finally done – 88 copies of a second edition are available (actually, more like 60 as some have gone already), with an extra screen printed inner to make it a bit more special. £7 from me and at Lancashire Zine, Artists’ Books and Multiples Fair in January, add £2 for post and packing otherwise.
An exhibition opens here at the Salzamt on Friday 24th July. Most artists have bought work with them, but limited by Ryanair’s measly 15kg allowance and the fact that most of my work is squashable, I have nothing with me to show. This goes a long way to explaining the mess I have made in my studio frantically shredding cardboard and going through much paper as I make and reject drawings. Still it is good to be making lots and to be drawing so much. The space I will be using to show is a lovely little niche and images will follow of the show set up when I have settled on some suitable work. In the meantime, I also want to stress the joy and usefulness of having a 7ft pin board in your studio – fantastic stuff!
Happily settled in my new studio space, I am working on some new drawings to go in an exhibition at the Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station (also known as the Old Barber Shop) at the Bluecoat in Liverpool.
The exhibition is open from 21st May – 19th June and the opening is on the 21st May from 6pm onwards. Venue can be found here.
I will have some work in the upcoming DRAWN IN exhibition at The Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station gallery next to the Bluecoat. The show is based around artists who look at drawing in an alternative way somehow. More information to follow when I know some!
I am a veritable book factory at the moment. The drawings for this one; Places for Hiding have been around for a long time, but have always needed putting into a book. Places for Thinking and Places for Shelter in progress…
Places for Hiding
Lost at Sea is ready, just in time for the opening of ‘Climate for Change’ opening at FACT, Liverpool on Thursday 12th March. The book looks at those historic buildings that have been left behind with development, and as a result sit amidst incongruous new architecture or simply just alone.
The ‘dusty islands’ perch on precarious platforms above the sea.
Inkjet printed, stitched booklet housed in a tracing paper bottle envelope.
Edition of 20, priced at £7.50 from the FACT bookshop.