Emily Speed

Speed has shown her work at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool) and Tate St Ives, among other places.

[4] Speed's practice encompasses small and large-scale sculpture and installation, from tiny hand-made dwellings, to larger manufactured interventions in architectural space.

[5] At Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, she created the site-specific work 'Nothing is Finished, Nothing is Perfect, Nothing Lasts' (2012), a sculpture that was integrated into the walls of the building to make it look as if it was unfolding at the edges.

[17] Writing for The Guardian, Skye Sherwin draws attention to the "oddball" comedy at play in Speed's work, as well as its ability to allow reflection on "the frailty of things".

When she was resident at the Women’s Studio Workshop in New York State in 2007 she created one of her first editions of books called 'Unfolding Architecture', which, as she says "brought together imagery, sculpture and text".

They include: Gordon Matta Clark,[22] Italo Calvino,[23] Kobo Abe,[24] Mark Z. Daniewleski,[23] Franz Kafka (in particular his short story, The Burrow),[25] Marcel Aymé,[26] and Edwin Abbott (in particular his 1884 novella, Flatland).