Emi­ly Floyd

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    An Open Space, 2011
    wenge, hoop pine, sug­ar pine, Huon pine, ash, oak, two-part epoxy paint, acrylic paint, Lac­quer, MDF, Marine Bond, PVC/​Steel fix­tures and supports
    660 x 220 x 60 cm
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Alle­go­ry of a Cave, 2017
    instal­la­tion view, One Par­ra­mat­ta Square, Sydney
    Pho­to: Roger D’Souza

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Abstract Labour, 2014
    two-part epoxy paint on alu­mini­um, steel
    300 x 1250 x 380 cm (over­all)
    Hei­de Muse­um of Mod­ern Art
    Com­mis­sioned with sup­port from the Vic­to­ri­an Gov­ern­ment through Arts Vic­to­ria and the Vic­to­ri­an Pub­lic Sculp­ture Fund 2013

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Man­grove Poem, 2019
    pub­lic installation
    Queens Wharf, Man­grove Walk, Brisbane
    Com­mis­sioned by Des­ti­na­tion Bris­bane Con­sor­tium (DBC)
    Pho­to: Cian Sanders

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Tem­ple of the Female Eunuch, 2007-08
    vinyl, polyurethane and pok­er work on wood
    dimen­sions variable
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    New Ways of Thinking, 2012
    steel, 2‑part epoxy paint
    per­ma­nent pub­lic sculpture
    Lacrosse Apart­ments, 675 LaTrobe St, Docklands
    Pho­to: Mark Ashkanasy

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    This place will always be open, 2012
    weld­ed steel sheet and two-part epoxy paint finish
    Inau­gur­al Ian Pot­ter Sculp­ture Court commission
    Monash Uni­ver­si­ty Muse­um of Art

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Kesh Alpha­bet, 2017
    alu­mini­um, two part epoxy paint, steel fix­tures, screen prints on paper
    dimen­sions variable

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Labour Gar­den, 2015
    Alu­mini­um, auto­mo­tive paint
    Dimen­sions variable

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Jack­a­lope, 2017
    alu­mini­um with two-part epoxy auto­mo­tive paint
    Jack­a­lope Hotel, Wil­low Creek, Victoria

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Pub­lic Art Strategy, 2004
    Pub­lic Art Commission
    East­Link Motor­way and Dock­lands Precinct, Melbourne

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Night Par­rot, 2023
    Sil­i­con Bronze, polished
    Edi­tion of 3 + 2 AP
    800 x 1000 x 400 cm
    Pho­to: Chris­t­ian Capurro

  • Emi­ly Floyd

    Stein­er Rainbow, 2006
    MDF, two-part epoxy paint
    dimen­sions vari­able (approx­i­mate­ly 181 x 361 x 180 cm)

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Biography

Born Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia 1972
Lives and works in Mel­bourne

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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


Emi­ly Floyd’s work is in the per­ma­nent col­lec­tions of: Nation­al Gallery of Aus­tralia, Can­ber­ra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syd­ney; Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art Aus­tralia, Syd­ney; Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne; Bendi­go Art Gallery; The Michael Bux­ton Con­tem­po­rary Aus­tralian Art Col­lec­tion, Mel­bourne; Monash Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lec­tion, Mel­bourne; Queens­land Art Gallery & Gallery of Mod­ern Art, Bris­bane; Detached Muse­um, Hobart; Vic­to­ria and Albert Muse­um, Lon­don; and The British Muse­um, Lon­don. Emi­ly Floyd is a fel­low of the Aus­tralia Coun­cil for the Arts and a Sid­ney Myer Fellow.


CV
Bib­li­og­ra­phy

Exhibitions

Stephen Bram, Angela de la Cruz, Emi­ly Floyd, Joseph Kosuth, Angel­i­ca Mesi­ti, Cal­lum Mor­ton, Jan Nel­son, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, David Noo­nan, Chi­haru Shio­ta, Jen­ny Wat­son, Justene Williams

THE OBJECT SELF-DEFINED: IN HOUSE 2025

Emi­ly Floyd

Cho­sen by a Cat

5th April – 1st June 2024
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Oliv­er Beer, Angela de la Cruz, Emi­ly Floyd, Jan Nel­son, Rose Nolan, Chi­haru Shio­ta, David Noo­nan, Taryn Simon

IN HOUSE

17th February – 30th April 2024
Anna Schwartz Gallery

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, Mar­co Fusina­to, 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
Available Works

Emi­ly Floyd

Gulags in the Sun, 2025
Archival inkjet print on cot­ton rag paper
77 x 55.5 x 7 cm

Emi­ly Floyd

Emoti­con #5, 2024
Steel, black oxide
14cm x 65cm x 1cm
Pho­to: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Emi­ly Floyd

A is you and B is myself, 2024
Pol­ished and pati­nat­ed bronze, alu­mini­um with two-part epoxy paint, 
steel with black oxide coating
120cm x 92cm x 40cm
Pho­to: Chris­t­ian Capurro

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 – 19
artist’s book (screen­print) with supplement
artist’s book (screen­print) with supplement

Emi­ly Floyd

Puf­fin with Fish #21 Bjarn­freður Ólafsson, 2017
wood, two part epoxy paint (mat­te black, red), mild steel with black oxide coating
45 x 25 x 35 cm

Emi­ly Floyd

Emi­ly Floyd, Gulag Archipelago, 2016 — 2025
Red Oak, Huon Pine, stain and polish
dimen­sions vari­able, approx. 135 x 135 x 98 cm
Pho­to: Chris­t­ian Capurro

Emi­ly Floyd

Gulags in the Sun, 2016
Unique wood­block print on Velin Arch­es paper
61 x 31.5 cm

Emi­ly Floyd

Rip­ple, Community, 2013 – 14
screen­print on BFK Arch­es paper unique state
110 x 70cm

Emi­ly Floyd

Rip­ple, Rad­i­cal Ecology, 2013 – 14
screen­print on BFK Arch­es paper unique state
110 x 70cm

Emi­ly Floyd

Warm Cir­cles, 2013
syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint and pen­cil on paper unique state
20 x 30cm

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

Abstract Solar, 2013
syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint and lac­quer on wood (Huon Pine and Wenge) and MDF
35 x 26 x 25 cm

Emi­ly Floyd

Design Sci­ence, 2008
etch­ing with aquatint print­ed in 1 colour from 1 cop­per plate over lith­o­graph print­ed in 1 colour from 1 alu­mini­um plate.
29.5 x 21 cm (image), 29.5 x 21 cm (paper)

Emi­ly Floyd

A Lit­tle Community, 2008
relief etch­ing print­ed in 1 colour from 1 cop­per plate over lith­o­graph print­ed in 1 colour from 1 alu­mini­um plate
29.5 x 21 cm (image), 29.5 x 21 cm (paper)

Emi­ly Floyd

A Strat­e­gy to infil­trate the homes of the bourgeoisie, 2005
paint and wood
dimen­sions variable

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Artist Emi­ly Floyd and her Ice­landic Puffins

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Emi­ly Floyd, ​‘Open Space’

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Emi­ly Floyd: Man­grove Poem

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She Per­sists: Emi­ly Floyd

She Per­sists is a hard­copy book and an online hub of 34 essays and podcasts […]

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New Wages For Stu­dents: A poster after Lot­ta Feminista

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Emi­ly Floyd, ​‘OPEN SPACE!’, George Street, Sydney

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Emi­ly Floyd, Louisa Bufarde­ci & Su san Cohn, ​‘We Change the World’ The Ian Pot­ter Cen­tre: NGV Aus­tralia, Lev­el 3

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Emi­ly Floyd: Edu­ca­tion: Alter­na­tives and the Academy

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EMI­LY FLOYD: KNOWL­EDGE POWER

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EMI­LY FLOYD: BUT­TER­FLY KITES

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STIEG PERS­SON, EMI­LY FLOYD: LIV­ING TOGETHER

Bendi­go Art Gallery presents an instal­la­tion of select­ed con­tem­po­rary works from the col­lec­tion will […]

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Emi­ly Floyd | Cir­cles of dialogue

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Kathy Temin | Emi­ly Floyd | 2024 Ravenswood Aus­tralian Wom­en’s Art Prize

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EMI­LY FLOYD | Social Stud­ies | Gee­long Gallery

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