ABOUT
My interests lies in the relationship between people and buildings and my work explores the body and its relationship to architecture. The idea of shelter and the inhabitant is at the core of much of my work; how a person is shaped by the buildings they have occupied and how a person occupies their own psychological space.
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Selected Exhibitions and Commissions
| September 2021 - June 2022 | Flatland, Tate Liverpool |
| May - June 2021 | Kinross at 40, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh | January - September 2020 | Rooms Designed for a Woman, Tate St Ives |
| January 2020 | Cocoon, a commmission for Great Ormond Street Hospital, realised with Plaey |
| May - November 2018 | Rooms Designed for a Woman, a site-specific work 'Innards' - a functional fountain - for this group show curated by Day and Gluckman, Knole House, Kent |
| September 2018 – January 2019 | The Precious Clay, Porcelein in contemporary art, commissioned by Meadow Arts, Museum of Royal Worcester |
| May - November 2018 | Scotland+Venice: The Happenstance, Biennale Architecttura, Venezia |
| June 2018 | Façades/Fronts with Jack Webb, commissioned by Look Again Festival, Aberdeen |
| 2017 - 2018 | Possibilities Club, Bootle Library, commissioned by Maria Brewster, working with Plaey and other collaborators for 'At The Library' |
| July - October 2017 | Commission for Abacus, a group exhibition for children, Bluecoat, Liverpool |
| April - June 2017 | [Re]construct: An Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme exhibition, The Chapel, Yorkshire Sculpture Park |
| March - June 2017 | Transparency: An Arts Council Collection National Partners Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| January - March 2017 | Solo exhibition - BODY BUILDERS , Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter |
| October - December 2016 | Solo exhibition - BODY BUILDERS , Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas |
| October - December 2016 | After the Primitives (with David Webb) , dalla Rosa Gallery, London |
| November - December 2016 | Dark Geometries , Coleman Projects, London | June - July2016 | Solo exhibition - BODY BUILDING , TRUCK, Calgary |
| November - December 2015 | WORK/SPACE, a public art commission, Oriel Wrexham and Glyndwr University, Wrexham |
| September - December 2015 | Fabric Spaces, PIANOFABRIEK, Brussels |
| July - September 2014 | Strange Business, Syson Gallery, Nottingham |
| July - September 2014 | Cities of Ash, g39, Cardiff |
| June 2014 | Solitude, a newly commissioned artist's book and reading room, Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield |
| March - May 2014 | Littoral Zone, solo exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth |
| January - March 2014 | Silence Unbound, Center for Artists Books, New York |
| January - February 2014 | The Land has Many Parts, Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara |
| September - November 2013 | 'Lady Garden', a new commission for STILL/Life, Ecologies of Perception, Trust New Art Bristol at Tyntesfield, National Trust, Bristol |
| September 2013 | Tightrope, a group show with Takming Chuang, Echo Morgan and Hanae Utamura curated by Kate Pantling for Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London |
| September 2013 | 'The Construction Workers' a new commission for Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire | April - May 2013 | Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London |
| March - June 2013 | Northern Art Prize exhibition with Margaret Harrison, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan and Rosalind Nashishibi, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds |
| March - April 2013 | Head to Head with Hayley Newman, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester |
| October 2012 | Subjective Involvement in Physical Spatial Entities with Aeneas Wilder and Esther Stocker (newly commissioned work) Oredaria Gallery, Rome |
| August 2012 | Human Castle, Edinburgh Art Festival 2012 Commissioned by Sorcha Carey. |
| June - July 2012 | Camp Out, Site-specific performance work for this exhibition at Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, USA | March 2012 | Exterior Wall Commission, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. A commission to create a sixth-month long intervention with the architecture of Open Eye's new gallery |
| January - July 2012 | Topophobia, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London and touring to Bluecoat, Liverpool and Spacex, Exeter |
| January 2012 | Flat Pack, a solo project at Hartington Road Gallery |
| July - September 2011 | MAKE SHIFT, Solo exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. |
| August - September 2011 | The Paper Cooperative, Spacex, Exeter |
| May 2011 | Dialogos (Catalogue available online here), ASSAB One, Milan |
| April - May 2011 | Small Scale Survival, Aid & Abet, Cambridge. |
| April 2011 | Textures of Time, Frederick Parker Gallery, curated by MA Curating the Contemporary, London Metropolitan University & Whitechapel Gallery |
| December 2010 | ROAMING. HETEROTOPIAS , Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| September 2010 | egg, nest, home, country, universe, curated by Paola Caravati, solo exhibition #5 in a series at Showreel, Milan, Italy |
Residencies
| April - June 2015 | Cultural Crossroads residency Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY |
| October - December 2014 | Derek Hill Foundation Scholar (Drawing) The British School at Rome |
| April - May 2014 | Standpoint Futures Residency Standpoint Gallery, London |
| August - September 2012 | Production residency: Explore, Expand, Expose Linz Kultur, Salzamt Atelierhaus Linz, Austria |
| March - May 2010 | A Curriculum at A Foundation, Liverpool |
| July - September 2009 | European Capital of Culture exchange residency with Linz Kultur, nominated by Liverpool Biennial, Salzamt Atelierhaus Linz, Austria |
| September - October 2007 | Artist's Book Residency at Women's Studio Workshop, New York State. Funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with additional support from The New York State Council on the Arts. |
| March - August 2004 | Artist in Residence at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland. Funded by the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh |
Awards
| 2013 | Northern Art Prize, Shortlist |
| 2011 | Bar-Tur Award shortlist |
| 2009/2010 | Feiweles Trust Bursary, Yorkshire Sculpture Park |
| 2007 & 2005 | Project Funding: Juliet Gomperts Trust |
| April 2004 | Project funding: Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund |
| May 2001 | John Kinross travel scholarship awarded by The Royal Scottish Academy to live and work in Florence, Italy |
Publications
| Drawing Room, Drawing Biennial (exhibition catalogue), 2013. ISBN: 978-0-9558299-7-0 |
| Atelierhaus Salzamt, Expand, Explore, Expose (exhibition catalogue), 2012. |
| Sarah Coulson, Gordon Brennan, Laura Mousavi and Emily Speed, MAKE SHIFT, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, July 2011 |
| R. Klanten(ed), Doppelganger, Images of the Human Being, Gestalten: Berlin, 2011, pviii, 84 and 85. ISBN 978-3-89955-332-1 |
| Emily Speed, Books as Bridges (essay) in Hand, Voice and Vision, artist's books from the Women's Studio Workshop (ex cat), Women's Studio Workshop: Rosendale, 2010, p30 - 32. ISBN: 1-893125-78-5 | Emily Speed (ed), Cardboard Folly #1 THE FOLD, 2010, ISSN: 2044-9771 |
| Vision Discovery: Art, Vision Magazine China, May 2010, p26. ISSN 1671-3397 |
| Emily Speed, Unfolding Architecture, Women's Studio Workshop: Rosendale, 2007. ISBN 1-893125-24-6 |
Education
| 2005 - 2006 | MA Fine Art: Drawing, University of the Arts London: Wimbledon College of Art |
| 1997 - 2001 | BA (Hons) Drawing & Painting, Edinburgh College of Art |
Collections
Collection of the City of LinzLibrary of Congress (Artists' Books)
Tate Artists' Book Collection
Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collection
University of West England: Centre for Fine Print Research Artists' Books Collection
Yale University
University of Delaware
Indiana University
Women's Studio Workshop, NY State
Rochester Institute of Technology
Vassar College
Virginia Commonwealth University
The University of Utah
Royal Scottish Academy
Hospitalfield Trust
Edinburgh College of Art
The University of Northampton; special books collection
Leeds College of Arts & Design
Private collections