Philip Speakman
philipspeakman@hotmail.com
based in London.
recent work
2023 - Chapel Perilous, moving image
2023 - The Forked Path, moving image
2023 - After Cottingley, mirror
2022 - The Dance of the LARPer.gif, seminar
2022 - The Fauna of Mirrors, sculptural moving image
2022 - Transforming Through The Screen..., critical writing
2021 - No Flaming House, collaborative moving image and workshops
2021 - Petrichor Project, audio for radio
2021 - Algal Shades, audio installation
2020 - The Err, outdoor sculpture
2019 - Tell, story telling sessions
*upcoming*
12/01/23 - A Self-Induced Hallucination: AI Folktales and Open Source Myth Making. Lethaby Gallery, London, Workshop and Screening Programme
education
2023 - Slade, UCL, MA Fine Art
2017 - Central Saint Martins, UAL, BA Fine Art
commissioned projects
2021 - BBC/Arts Council New Creatives, audio commission, 'Petrichor Project'
2020 - Grizedale Arts, Lake District, 'The Err'
exhibitions
2023 - Slade School of Art, UCL, 'MA Degree Show'
2023 - The Crypt, London, 'DEADTIME II'
2022 - Copeland Park, London, 'Ghost Show: The Haunted House'
2022 - Slade, UCL, London, 'Interim Show'
2022 - Worlding Project, London, 'Lambing Season'
2021 - OUTPOST Gallery, Gildengate House, Norwich, 'Algal Shades' (residency outcome)
2018 - fivehundredthousand, London, 'The Strange Account Of Ellery Cordwainer'
2018 - OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich, ‘Members Show 2018’ selected by The White Pube
2018 - fivehundredthousand, London, 'The World Tour Inauguration - ArtLicks Weekend'
2018 - Lethaby Gallery, London, 'Temporalities'
2018 - OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich, ‘Members Show 2017 selected by Andy Holden’
2017 - Central Saint Martins, 'Degree Show'
2016 - Coniston Institute, Cumbria, ‘Prefatory Action’
2016 - Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, ‘Pat’s Xs’
2015 - Blip blip blip, Leeds, ‘Interim + Ciarra Phillips and Edwin Pickstone’
screenings and broadcasts
2023 - Flat Earth Film Festival, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2022 - BBC Radio 6 Music, 'Introducing Arts'
2022 - Liquid Gold, London
2021 - Grizedale Arts, Lake District, 'New Build Day'
2019 - Deptford Cinema, London, 'fivehundredthousand at Deptord Cinema'
2018 - Set, London, ‘Film Screening’
2018 - Art Week Exeter, ‘The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival’
2018 - Elmer Projects, London, 'Film Screenings'
2017 - Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Gallery, ‘The Next Thing’
2017 - The Bomb Factory, London, ‘Spring Artist Film Festival’
2017 - Central Saint Martins, London, ‘Metaphonica III’
events staged/curated
2019 - F.A.T. Studio, 'Tell5', London, 10/11/19
2019 - TACO!, Thamesmead, ALW Radio - 'Tell2066' radio show, 17 - 20/10/19
2019 - Wellsproject, 'Tell4' as part of 'The Salamander Skin', London, 29/09/19
2019 - Gossamer Fog, 'Tell3' as part of Future Primitive, London, 23/06/19
2018 - Ah, Bike Club!, artist lead cycling tour, 10/11/18
2015 - Peckham Safehouse, London, ‘BATTERY POWER: A Post-Electric Exhibition’, 10/2015
awards and residencies
2021 - OUTPOST Gallery, studio residency, July 2021
2017 - The Next Thing Award, shortlisted, Bury Art Museum, 2017
2017 - Acme Associate Studios Program recipient, 2017 - 2019
workshops and teaching
2023 - Visiting Practitioner, Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Art
2021 - Lead Artist, Young Persons Summer Films School, The Farmers Arms and National Trust
21/22- Support Technician, Central Saint Martins, Film and Video Lab
2015 - Lead Artist, End of the Earth Project, O2 Think Big funded project,
statement
Working across moving image, live events, collaborative processes and writing, my practice explores the role of fiction as an unruly technology of transformation with our networked socio-political lives. Through sustained research projects, my work considers the reverberations of our socially told stories, and how the imaginary transgresses its unreality through our media and communication technologies. These might be the myths enmeshed in supposedly national landscapes, the ghosts which haunt our personal devices, or the waking dream space of the internet; its hysterias and anxieties, folklore and fauna.