Emi­ly Floyd

Born Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia 1972

Lives and works in Melbourne

Work­ing in sculp­ture, print­mak­ing and pub­lic instal­la­tion, Emi­ly Floyd is renowned for her text-based sculp­tures and ped­a­gog­i­cal­ly inspired works that com­bine a strong focus on visu­al qual­i­ties with an inter­est in the lega­cies of mod­ernism. Her work engages a wide range of dis­ci­plines includ­ing social activism, design and typog­ra­phy, lit­er­a­ture and cul­tur­al stud­ies, com­mu­ni­ty par­tic­i­pa­tion and pub­lic edu­ca­tion. Inter­sect­ing pub­lic space with a care­ful­ly con­sid­ered aes­thet­ic approach, the artist cre­ates bold spaces for pub­lic engage­ment and interaction.

Recent projects include the 2018 Inter­na­tion­al Cura­to­r­i­al and Stu­dio Pro­gram Res­i­den­cy and exhi­bi­tion, A Work­ing Mod­el of the World at Par­sons School of Design, New York City (2017); All the World’s Futures, 56^th Venice Bien­nale curat­ed by Okwui Enwe­zor (2015) and Below Anoth­er Sky, curat­ed by Alex­ia Holt at the British Coun­cil Lon­don (2015).

Floyd’s work is in the per­ma­nent col­lec­tions of the Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art Aus­tralia, Syd­ney; Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne; Nation­al Gallery of Aus­tralia, Can­ber­ra; Queens­land Art Gallery & Gallery of Mod­ern Art, Bris­bane; Vic­to­ria and Albert Muse­um, Lon­don; The British Muse­um, Lon­don; amongst others.

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