Mercy have put Cardboard Folly in their top five collaborative projects of the year in an article that’s just been published on creativetimes.co.uk. Flattered. I should also take the opportunity to apologise for not having a PDF of it online yet. Each issue takes a couple of hours to assemble, so the poor artists have …
Author Archives: Emily
Roaming – Heterotopias
After a great week at YSP last week I am fully stuck into some research on the park and making some models for new works. Today though, I am taking slides in the studio for work that will be shown in Roaming – Heterotopias, a group exhibition opening on 4th December at the Musee Cantonal …
Seven Streets
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.
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 animation
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 …
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 …
‘A House Like Me’ book launch
Last Friday was the launch at of ‘A House Like Me’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The event was to mark the end of my year as bursary holder for the Feiweles Trust at the Park. I have compiled the book and it is a mix of digital printing with screen printed dividers. It was a …