Emily Speed

Skeleton

Year 2023
Medium Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Dimensions 29.7 x 21 cm

About the work

This drawing shows a floor plan from above. These ‘Skeletons’ are a device Speed uses regularly to explore her own psychological space, and they change form and decor accordingly, depending on her frame of mind, interests and life at that point in time.

Date and country of birth

1979, GB

Career Highlights

UNBUILD: A Site of Possibility, Drawing Room, London 2023
John Florent Stone Fellow, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023
Flatland, Tate Liverpool, 2021-22
Rooms Designed for a Woman, Tate St Ives, 2020

Collections include: Arts Council England, Government Art Collection, MIT, Library of Congress Artists Book Collection and Yale University.