
Emily Floyd: Far Rainbow
Heide Museum of Modern Art 2014
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, 56th 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.
Emily Floyd, Stieg Persson
Living Together
12th November 2022 – 12th February 2023
Bendigo Art Gallery
Emily Floyd
Keeping it Complex, Keeping it Connected
12th November 2022 – 4th March 2023
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Emily Floyd
Knowledge Power
Emily Floyd
Butterfly Kites
Emily Floyd
SURPLUS LABOUR
17th – 20th February 2022
Melbourne Art Fair
Emily Floyd
OPEN SPACE!
Emily Floyd
Mangrove Poem
Emily Floyd
Anti-totalitarian Vectors
13th July – 17th August 2019
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Emily Floyd
Allegory of a Cave
Emily Floyd
JACKALOPE
Emily Floyd
Icelandic Puffins
8th April – 13th May 2017
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Emily Floyd
Field Libraries
5th June – 11th July 2015
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Emily Floyd
Labour Garden
9th May – 22nd November 2015
56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Emily Floyd
Abstract Labour
Emily Floyd
The Dawn
21st November 2014 – 1st March 2015
National Gallery of Victoria
Emily Floyd
Far Rainbow
15th March – 13th July 2014
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Emily Floyd
New Graphic Sculpture
6th October – 10th November 2012
Anna Schwartz Gallery Carriageworks
Emily Floyd
This place will always be open
Emily Floyd
An Open Space
29th April – 28th May 2011
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Emily Floyd
The Fertile Void
14th August – 26th September 2009
Anna Schwartz Gallery Carriageworks
Tom Nicholson, Jenny Watson, Mutlu Çerkez, Peter Tyndall, Ian Whittlesea, Mike Parr, Emily Floyd, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Rose Nolan, Grant Stevens
WORD
4th July – 8th August 2009
Anna Schwartz Gallery Carriageworks
Emily Floyd
Temple of the Female Eunuch
6th February – 1st March 2008
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Emily Floyd
New Ways of Thinking
2nd – 28th October 2006
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Emily Floyd
Public Art Strategy
Emily Floyd
A Strategy to infiltrate the homes of the bourgeoisie
5th – 27th August 2005
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Emily Floyd
P — where all the builders are not human beings, 2022
aluminium, wood, linotype, steel fixtures, two paint epoxy paint, synthetic polymer paint; wall-mounted
70 x 100 x 40 cm
Emily Floyd
In this Interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms emerge, 2022
aluminium, wood, linotype, steel fixtures, two paint epoxy paint, synthetic polymer paint; freestanding owl with speech bubble on plinth
dimensions variable: approx. 90 x 100 x 30 cm
Emily Floyd
Owl of Minerva, 2019
owl: cast aluminium, two-part epoxy paint
lantern: cast and fabricated aluminium, lighting insert
150 x 130.65 x 99.7 cm
Edition of 3
Emily Floyd
Female Orgasm: a codex of sorts, after Ursula Le Guin, 2018
artist’s book (screenprint) with supplement
295 x 163 mm (closed)
Edition of 30
Emily Floyd
Here on Rainbow There is Experimental New Material, 2014
77 x 58 x 15 cm
Emily Floyd
Abstract Solar, 2013
synthetic polymer paint and lacquer on wood and composition board
35 x 26 x 25 cm
Emily Floyd
Nomadic Shepherds, 2013
synthetic polymer paint and wood
200 x 100 x 100 cm
Emily Floyd
Abstract Labour, 2013
screenprint on full sheet of Somerset Satin White paper
76 x 112 cm
Edition of 30
Emily Floyd
A strategy to infiltrate the homes of the bourgeoisie, 2005
paint and wood
dimensions variable: height of largest component 100 cm
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