John Florent Stone Fellow 2023 - University of Edinburgh

A nine-month fellowship based at Edinburgh College of Art, culminating in an exhibition in ECA's Sculpture Court in September 2023. The fellowship was an opportunity to explore archive material documenting the annual Revel at ECA, looking at how students have created their own spaces and identities within the institution. New ceramic and fabric sculptures by Speed imagined the art school as a matriarch including hybrid forms, which slip between body and space/object, and that offer the viewer a tender fingertip, or embrace.