The Land Has Many Parts January 15 – February 15 . 2014 Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Silence Unbound: The Artist’s Lexicon in the Making January 17, 2014 – March 29, 2014 Center for Book Arts New York Organized by Heather Powell The artists featured in Silence Unbound often work in familiar forms, but …
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SLUICE
I’ll be showing some drawings and a new multiple – a tea towel, with the very lovely Aid & Abet at Sluice Art Fair next weekend. Loads of great artist-led activity showing there so well worth a visit, including my own studio group The Royal Standard. Go!
Lady Garden
Last week, I was building, tiling, painting and gardening in Bristol at the incredible Tyntesfield, a National Trust property making a new work for ‘STILL/life ecologies of perception’ the inaugural exhibition from Trust New Art Bristol. The exhibition runs from 8th September until early November and the bumpf about the new work is here: Lady …
Tightrope
Tightrope Curated by Kate Pantling, Tightrope brings together the work of four international emerging artists Takming Chuang, Echo Morgan, Emily Speed and Hanae Utamura. The artists share a performative approach to their practice, where a sense of harmony, dissonance and a raw energy are connecting threads. Each artist takes their own body as …
Sfogliatelle – a print
My new print (made with amazing printmaker Emma Gregory) Sfogliatelle is currently on sale at the Bluecoat to help raise money for the Print Studios. Each print is £120 (unframed) and they are available to purchase from Tickets & Information in the hub. Sfogliatelle by Emily Speed, Ten-layer Screen Print, 2013, Limited Edition of 50 About the work: …
I LIKE THE WAY YOU MOVE
Yes I do. And if you’re in Edinburgh this Wednesday 7th August, you should come along to a film club night Elizabeth Murphy and I have put together for Edinburgh Art Festival at New Media Scotland. I did a commission for the festival last year (Human Castle) so I am really pleased to be …
Good things
A couple of my Body/Building polaroids were included in the inaugural issue of Paperwork Magazine. I was also awarded one of the Standpoint Futures residencies for 2013/2014 so I am looking forward to spending 6 weeks in London next spring and getting some really valuable studio visits!
The Boulder Project
Tomorrow I shall be heading for Cape Ann, Massachusetts for a few weeks, to work on a short research project. At the invitation of Jane Deering, I shall be working in a small village there for a period of time that is intended to give artists some time and space to create new work. At …
Nyx Issue 8 : Skin
I have some images of Panoply in the new Nyx issue #8: Skin, alongside a fantastic text written by Laura Mousavi in response to my work. There will be a launch event on Friday 10th May at the Bussey Building, Peckham, London. Facebook event HERE
NAP : In conversation with Sally Tallant
On Tuesday 23rd April, I shall be in conversation with Sally Tallant, who nominated me for the Northern Art Prize, about the work in the exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery. The talk begins at 6pm, more information HERE.