Emily Speed @ Dalla Rosa Gallery

Considering the different nature of their practices Emily Speed and David Webb seem a curious pairing, but similaritiesstart surfacing when examining their work through the lens of a shared fascination with a certain visual culture.  Both artists show influences routed in Mediterranean architecture and art (specifically before the 15th Century),  After the Primitives aims to explore such influences.  Emily Speed’s interest lies in the relationship between people and buildings, her work explores the body and its relationship to architecture. The idea of shelter and the inhabitant is at the core of much of Emily’s work; how a person is shaped by the buildings they have occupied and how a person occupies their own psychological space.