Philip Speakman


philipspeakman@hotmail.com
@philipspeakman
based in London.


It May Start Out as a Game..., journal article, 2025
The Road That Eats Thoughts, live role play game, 2025
Reality Break, audio for radio, 2024
Katabasing, XR performance, 2024
A Self-Induced Hallucination, workshop, 2024
Chapel Perilous, moving image, 2023
The Forked Path, moving image, 2023
After Cottingley, engraved mirror, 2023
The Fauna of Mirrors, sculptural moving image, 2022
Transforming Through the Screen..., critical writing, 2022
No Flaming House, collaborative moving image, 2021
The Err, outdoor sculpture, 2021
Tell, story telling sessions, 2018-2019


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After Cottingley


engraved mirror, soot
2023​

"I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in."

Mirror engraved with the image which young girls Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths likely based their 1917 fairy photos on, a pre-internet viral hoax which took on a life of its own, fooling many including Arthur Conan Doyle and used as evidence by Theosophists later on. Made in a 9:16 aspect ratio using smoke and mirrors.

Exhibited at Slade Graduate Degree Show 2023.