Emily Speed
www.emilyspeed.co.uk
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Emily Speed’s work is an ongoing exploration into the relationships between architecture and human anatomy: the body as a building that houses the mind. She often refers to architectural forms as it represents for her, the most poignant example of transience; man’s attempt to create permanence and legacy through building. Particularly drawn to the more uninhabited spaces of buildings; corners, recesses, passageways, stairways, entrances and exits, Speed constructs models and environments of sorts as well as bookworks; a kind of immaterial architecture that plots out her personal space. Her work is also concerned with the enduring sense of memory and/or personal identity that is often embedded into built space.
