Emily Floyd
Quick Facts
Biography
Emily Floyd (born 1972) in Melbourne, Victoria is an Australian artist working in public art, sculpture and print making.
Education
Floyd qualified with aBachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture degree in 1999 from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. Floyd is an academic at Monash University.
Commissions
Among her public art is a number of commissioned works. Far Rainbow was a 2014 installation commissioned by Heide Museum of Modern Art, curated by Sue Cramer. A permanent outdoor sculpture Abstract Labour was also commissioned by Heide as part of the exhibition, funded by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Victorian Public Sculpture Fund.
This place will always be open was a 2012 Ian Potter Sculpture Commission from the Monash University Museum of Art.
Works
- Kesh Alphabet (visualisation) (2017), a digital collage including photograph by Max Dupain of the Art Gallery of New South Wales 1977. Exhibited in The National 2019 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Curated by Anneke Jaspers.
- Icelandic Puffins (2017), a sculptural installation in Divided Worlds, 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.
- Garden Sculpture (2009), a sculpture in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2010, purchased with funds provided by the Coe and Mordant families, 2010.
Exhibitions
- 2019 Anti-totalitarian Vectors, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.
- 2014 The Dawn, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne