Philip Speakman


philipspeakman@hotmail.com
@philipspeakman
based in London.


It May Start Out as a Game...

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journal article, 2025
The Road That Eats Thoughts, live role play game, 1 hour, 2025
Reality Break, audio for radio, 16 minutes, 2024
Katabasing, XR performance, 20 minutes, 2024
A Self-Induced Hallucination, workshop, 2024
Chapel Perilous, moving image, 8 minutes, 2023
The Forked Path, moving image, 10 minutes, 2023
After Cottingley, engraved mirror, 2023
The Fauna of Mirrors, sculptural moving image, 2 minutes, 2022
Transforming Through the Screen..., critical writing, 2022
No Flaming House, collaborative moving image, 13 minutes, 2021
The Err, outdoor sculpture, 2021
Tell, story telling sessions, 2018-2019


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After Cottingley


engraved mirror, soot
2023​

"I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in."

Mirror engraved with the image which young girls Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths likely based their 1917 fairy photos on, a pre-internet viral hoax which took on a life of its own, fooling many including Arthur Conan Doyle and used as evidence by Theosophists later on. Made in a 9:16 aspect ratio using smoke and mirrors.

Exhibited at Slade Graduate Degree Show 2023.