NEWS / UPCOMING
PERENNIAL AT HAARLEM ARTSPACE, 28 AUGUST - 20 SEPTEMBER, 2026
Lovely to be part of Perennial at Haarlem ArtSpace. Opening party Friday 28 August 6-9 pm with the exhibition continuing to 20 September. Contributing artists include Tyler Mellins, Jun Rui Lo, Yelena Popova, Fay Nicolson, Alana Lake, and Thomas Griffiths.
FEEDBACK #049: EMMA BOLLAND & MARY FARRALL, 26 August 2026
Image: Designs for Spaceships 1 & 2, ground minerals and gum arabic on paper, each 147 by 101cm. Photo credit: Rachel Smith.
I’m very happy to presenting works in progress alongside Mary Farrall at Feedback #49. All welcome. You can book a place here. “Feedback is Yorkshire ArtSpaces monthly crit group for artists at all career stages. This session will see work presented by artists Emma Bolland & Mary Farrall. Crits are facilitated by our Programme & Communications Officer, Tyler Mellins. Our crit format asks presenting artists to listen silently whilst others discuss their work, with minimal background information (the artist can share titles and whether the work is finished). After each discussion, there is an opportunity for the artist to respond or answer questions from the group.The crit will begin at 4:00pm sharp, please arrive 5 mins early. The session will open with an opportunity for everyone to briefly introduce themselves. Following the crit, there is an optional drinks social at The Red Lion, 109 Charles Street, S1 2ND”.
MANCHESTER EXPERIMENTAL ARTS AND POETRY FESTIVAL, 11 JULY 2026
I’m very pleased to have been invited to do a performance reading of The Tower Dreams the Tower, a developing work with a text and image scroll. The Tower Dreams the Tower is voices the clock tower of a decommissioned asylums, as it grieves its past and imagines a future as an intergalactic time traveller.
IT MUST WORK LIKE A RECORDING (fixed in the floors and walls)
Wath Hall, Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire. Open day 30th May 2026
It must work like a recording (fixed in the floor and the walls) is a site-specific residency. Its title is taken from The Stone Tape (1972), a BBC television play in which a team of researchers discover a haunted room. Instead of supernatural ghosts, they find that the stone walls, like magnetic tapes, have recorded traumatic events.Under this premise, the residency invites three artists — Emma Bolland, Tyler Mellins, and Rachel Smith — to occupy Wath Hall, an 18th century house now home to a community of ghost-hunters, crystal healers and Reiki practitioners. Operating from queer and neurodivergent perspectives, the artists consider how a building might function as a vessel for psychic energies such as memory, emotion, and mania. They ask the house questions and it responds by peeling back its wallpaper, rolling up its carpets, and becoming porous. Their resulting work exists in the space as interventions or apparitions: glitches that interrupt the of the house, provoking a more active mode of perceiving its latent properties. Join the artists for an open day on 1 - 5 pm Saturday 30th May for an opportunity to explore the hall and encounter the work.
DESIGNS FOR SPACESHIPS, works on paper, The Reception Gallery, Bloc Projects, Sheffield 23 May – 19 June 2026
Designs for Spaceships brings together a selection of my previously unexhibited works on paper. Giclée prints of the works will be available on request.
GLITCH SEMAPHORE
Saturday 16 MAY 2026 (pwerformances at 2 pm and 2.45 pm)
Part of Situation Leeds: Contemporary Artists and the Public Realm
Image: Prop for Glitch Semaphore, 2025, (photo credit: the artist).
Glitch Semaphore is a sculpture-as-performance for eight people. Historically, semaphore used gesture, flags, objects, mechanical towers, lights, or fire to communicate over long distances. For Situation Leeds semaphore is reimagined as sci-fi. Using sculptural objects with mataphysical properties, Glitch Semaphore proposes a mysterious language of gestural, material, and psychic transmissions, and repositions a magic-circle intersection of paths in Woodhouse Moor in Leeds as a node in an interstellar network of fantastical communications. Map co-ordinates 53.810769, -1.560988. Glitch Semaphore is supported througha CuratorSpace Artist Bursary.