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
*upcoming*
21/02/2025 - 'The Road That Eats Thoughts' at Chemist Gallery, 7-9pm
education
2023 - Slade, UCL, MA Fine Art
2017 - Central Saint Martins, UAL, BA Fine Art
selected screenings, broadcasts, performances
2025 - 'Present Images', St Saviours, London
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’
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 Programme recipient, 2017 - 2019
talks, workshops and teaching
2025 - Arebyte Gallery, 'Myths and Memetics' roundtable
2024 - Associate Lecturer (Hourly Paid), 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
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.