Philip Speakman
philipspeakman@hotmail.com
based in London.​
recent work
2024 - Reality Break, audio work for radio
2024 - Katabasing, XR performance
2024 - A Self-Induced Hallucination, workshop
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
2021 - Petrichor Project, audio for radio
2021 - Algal Shades, audio installation
2020 - The Err, outdoor sculpture
2019 - Tell, story telling sessions
​​education
2023 - Slade, UCL, MA Fine Art
2017 - Central Saint Martins, UAL, BA Fine Art
​selected screenings, broadcasts, performances
2024 - Future Artefacts FM, 'Reality Break'
2024 - Alt_R, Gossamer Fog, 'Mudsimmer'
2023 - Flat Earth Film Festival, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2022 - BBC Radio 6 Music, 'Introducing Arts'
2021 - Grizedale Arts, Lake District, 'New Build Day'
2019 - Deptford Cinema, London, 'fivehundredthousand at Deptord Cinema'
2018 - Art Week Exeter, ‘The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival’
2018 - fivehundredthousand, London, 'The World Tour Inauguration - ArtLicks Weekend'
2018 - Lethaby Gallery, London, 'Temporalities'
2018 - Elmer Projects, London, 'Film Screenings'
2017 - Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Gallery, ‘The Next Thing’
2017 - Central Saint Martins, 'Degree Show'
2017 - The Bomb Factory, London, ‘Spring Artist Film Festival’
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selected 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'
2017 - Central Saint Martins, 'Degree Show'​​
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
awards, commissions, residencies
2021 - OUTPOST Gallery, studio residency, July 2021
2021 - BBC/Arts Council New Creatives, audio commission, 'Petrichor Project'
2020 - Grizedale Arts, Lake District, commission, 'The Err'
2017 - The Next Thing Award, shortlisted, Bury Art Museum, 2017
2017 - Acme Associate Studios Program recipient, 2017 - 2019
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​workshops and teaching
2024 - Associate Lecturer, Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Art, Unit 4
2024 - 'A Self-Induced Hallucination' workshop, Lethaby Gallery, London
2023 - Visiting Practitioner, Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Art, Documentation Workshop
2021 - 'Young Persons Summer Films School', Grizedale Arts and National Trust
2016 - 'End of The Earth Project', workshops, Cumbria ​
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Fiction haunts reality like fog precedes a cold morning. My practice explores the anomalous fictions which shape and arise from our contemporary networked lives; those narratives which creep from the imaginary into reality through the media and communication technologies via which they are told. Using expanded approaches to moving image, incorporating installation, live events, writing and workshops, my works reflect upon the continual ‘weirdening’ of online and offline life.