Emily Speed, UK book artist
Title: Lost at SeaMedia: Stitched Booklet comprising inkjet print on paper, housed in a printed, tracing paper envelope.
Edition of 20 (second edition coming soon)
Size: envelope measures 16 x 7cm
Price: 7.50 English Pounds
This book was made for the 'Climate for Change' exhibition at FACT, Liverpool, a north eastern city in the United Kingdom. It considers recent regeneration in the city. The book looks at those historic buildings in Liverpool that have been left behind with development, and as a result sit amidst incongruous new architecture or simply alone. The ‘dusty islands’ in the book perch on precarious platforms above the sea.
ARTIST DETAILS
My most recent work has been based around the vulnerability and the temporary nature of things.
I often use architectural forms in my work as it represents, for me, the most poignant example of transience; man’s attempt to create permanence and legacy through building.
I am also interested in the way that architecture can act as a metaphor for our internal selves (the body as a building that houses the mind) and with the enduring sense of memory and/or personal identity that is often embedded into or linked with particular sites.
My work, which comprises installations, drawings, artists’ books and sculptures, often seems to exist in an in-between state where it can be difficult to ascertain whether works are in a half-built or half-derelict state. The dependency of the work on the environment in which it is built and shown is also something that interests me greatly; my work is often balanced, propped, wedged or held together through tension.
Literature is also of great influence, and fiction often features heavily in my work, whether through the creation of fictional places, written text or the imposition of a new history onto a place.
CONTACT DETAILS: Emily Speed: emilyspeed@hotmail.com
Further work can be seen at : http://emilyspeed.co.uk/section.php?name=bookworks