The idea of shelter and the inhabitant is at the core of much of my work; how a person is shaped by the buildings they have occupied and how a person occupies their own psychological space. The word inhabitant contains the root habit (dress) and implies a habitat (dwelling) and my work often has this double function of being both shelter and clothing. The shelters are an expression of the layers that
Qualifications and training 2006 - MA Fine Art: Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art 2001 - BA (Hons) Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art Solo exhibitions 2011 - MAKE SHIFT, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton 2010 - egg-nest-home-country-universe, Showreel, Milan Group exhibitions 2012 - Camp Out, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, USA 2012 - Eastern Vistas, Smiths Row, Bury St Edmunds 2012 - Gest, Centre for Recent Drawing, London 2012 - Lost is Found, Cornerhouse, Manchester 2012 - PLAY/GAME/PLACE/STATE, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London 2012 - Subjective Involvement in Physical Spatial Entities, Oredaria Gallery, Rome 2012 - Topophobia, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, touring to Bluecoat and Spacex, London, Liverpool, Exeter 2011 - Dialogos, ASSAB One, Milan 2011 - Small Scale Survival, Aid & Abet, Cambridge 2011 - The Paper Cooperative, Spacex, Exeter 2010 - BUILT, Rogue Project Space, Manchester 2010 - Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists' Books from Women's Studio Workshop, Grolier Club, New York 2010 - Manchester Contemporary with Axis, Spinningfields, Manchester 2010 - No ISBN, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany 2010 - ROAMING, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lausanne, Switzerland 2009 - DRAWN IN, The Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station, Liverpool 2009 - from this filthy sewer grows pure gold, Supercollider, Blackpool 2008 - Facade, Gallery 33, Berlin 2008 - Signs of Life, 102 Seel Street, Liverpool 2006 - Drawn Out, Centre for Recent Drawing, London Residencies 2012 - Expand, Explore, Expose, Salzamt Atelierhaus, Linz, Austria 2010 - A Curriculum, A Foundation, Liverpool 2009 - European Capital of Culture exchange residency with Linz Kultur, nominated by Liverpool Biennial, International Studio House Linz, Austria 2007 - Artists' Book Residency, Women's Studio Workshop, New York State 2004 - Royal Scottish Academy Artist-in-residence, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath Public commissions 2012 - Exterior wall commission, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool 2012 - Human Castle, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh Projects 2012 - Flat Pack, Hartington Road Gallery, London 2010 - The Drawing Shed, Project Space Leeds, Leeds Competitions, prizes and awards 2011 - shortlist, Bar-Tur Award, London 2010 - Shortlist, Liverpool Art Prize, Liverpool 2009 - Feiweles Trust Bursary 09/10, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2007 - Project Funding, Juliet Gomperts Trust, London 2001 - John Kinross Florence Scholarship, Royal Scottish Academy, Florence Publications 2011 - Doppelganger, Images of the Human Being, Gestalten (Berlin), ISBN 978-3-89955-332-1 2011 - Emily Speed - MAKE SHIFT, Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2010 - Vision Magazine (China), Discovery section.
