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Personal profile
Biography
Emily Floyd (b. 1972, Melbourne) works in sculpture and public installation. She explores the history of play, employing it as a frame for investigations into literature, public philosophy and the legacies of modernism. Drawing parallels between educational models and contemporary art, Floyd's works generate spaces for social engagement and interaction whilst provoking discussions about contemporary social, cultural and political potentiality.
Selected group exhibitions include: A New Order, Buxton Contemporary (2019) ISCP New York (2018) State of the Union, Melbourne University (2018) Adelaide Biennale (2018) A Working Model of the World, Sheila C. Johnson Design Centre, New York (2017) Call of the Avant-Garde, Heide MOMA (2017) Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism, ACCA (2017) The National, AGNSW (2017) If People Powered Radio, Gertrude Contemporary (2016) Excursions in Narrative Form, MCA (2016) Art as a Verb: Artspace (2015), All the Worlds Futures, 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Below Another Sky, British Council, London (2015), There will be new rules next week, DCA, Scotland (2013), Sleep on the Left Side, Seven Art Limited, New Delhi (2012), Kindness/Udarta, Habitat Center New Delhi (2012), Ten Ways to Look at the Past, NGV, Melbourne (2011), In the Bal- ance: Art for a Changing World, MCA, Sydney (2010); Optimism, GOMA (2008).
Recent solo exhibitions include Emily Floyd: Anti-totalitarian Vectors, ASG Melbourne (2019), MCA Sydney (2018) Icelandic Puffins, Anna Schwartz Gallery (2017) The Dawn, National Gallery of Victoria, (2014) Far Rainbow, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2014) This Place Will Always Be Open, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
The artist has completed a number of public commissions, including installations for Heide Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane’s Mangrove Walkway, Curtin Place, Sydney, Jackalope Hotels on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne’s EastLink Motorway and Docklands Precinct, Sydney’s Australia Square and Martin Place precinct, PS1 Parramatta, Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital and Monash University Museum of Art’s first annual commission for Ian Potter Sculpture Court, This Place Will Always Be Open. For the 2017 edition of The National, Emily Floyd completed a landmark commission at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
In 2014 Floyd was made a fellow of the Australia Council for the Arts and in 2016 was awarded a Sydney Myer Creative Fellowship. Emily Floyd is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Publications: Female Orgasm, 2018, in collaboration with Negative Press and Experimental Jetset, Amsterdam; Far Rainbow 2014 with Amelia Barikin and Sue Cramer; The Dawn 2015 with Jane Devery and Helen Hughes; and This place will always be open, 2013 with Ken Mansell. Bibliographical notes include Terry Smith in What is Contemporary Art, 2009; Wes Hill in Frieze Magazine, 2015 and Ranjit Hoskote in All the World’s Futures.
“Emily Floyd's project takes shape at the intersections where sculpture meets public space and design collides with social crisis. It embraces elements of expanded sculpture and a range of print media and typographic artifacts, including the poster and the manifesto. Floyd renegotiates the possibility of public address, critically en- gaging an increasingly diverse and unpredictable viewership in debate. The topics of that exchange range from such urgencies as labour conditions in a world where work has become increasingly immaterialized, the traumas of migration at a time when exile is the norm, and the imperative of self-organization as unprecedented and im- provised forms of community emerge across the globe. Indeed, Floyd’s work ges- tures toward new forms of sociality, for which the artwork can serve both as provocation and as venue.“ Ranjit Hoskote, All the World's Futures
Network
Projects
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VNII Polygraphmash: Laboratory of Special Graphic Forms
Australia Council for the Arts
1/12/15 → 31/08/16
Project: Research
Research output
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'New ways of thinking' - SM - 'A New Order'
Floyd, E., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
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Declaration of the Rights of the Child
Floyd, E., Sharpe, J., Cochius, C. & Joyce, P., 2018Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Research
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Female Orgasm: A Codex of Sorts after Ursula K Le Guin
Floyd, E., Stolk, M., van den Dungen, D., Brinkers, E. & Walter, T., 2018Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
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'Field Libraries' - SM - 'State of the Union'
Floyd, E. & Walter, T., 2018Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
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'Icelandic Puffins' - SM - 'Divided Worlds'
Floyd, E., 2018Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
Prizes
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2020 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture - Joint Winner
Beth Arnold (Recipient), Mikala Dwyer (Recipient), Floyd, Emily (Recipient), Mangan, Nicholas (Recipient) & Temin, Kathy (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Artists at Work: Emily Floyd and Esther Hovers
Emily Floyd (Contributor) & Esther Hovers (Contributor)
27 Nov 2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Panel Discussion: 'Art and the World we Know'
Maria Zagala (Host), Emily Floyd (Contributor), Vernon Ah Kee (Contributor) & Patrick Pound (Contributor)
4 Mar 2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Artist Workshop - Emily Floyd - ACCA
Emily Floyd (Contributor)
2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
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Workshop: Emily Floyd: Graphics & Typography in Printmaking
Emily Floyd (Contributor) & Jake Holmes (Contributor)
26 May 2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
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Kesh Letterpress Block Printing Workshop
Emily Floyd (Contributor) & Michael Kempson (Contributor)
8 May 2017Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public outreach
Press / Media
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NGV: 'Book Launch: Emily Floyd 'Female Orgasm: a codex of sorts, after Ursula K Le Guin'
Emily Floyd & Trent Walter
16/03/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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BROADSHEET: 'In the Galleries: Five Shows to See in March'
13/03/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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CNN TRAVEL: 'Mornington Peninsula: One of Australia's most magical up-and-coming destinations'
1/03/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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HYPERALLERGIC: 'Fall Open Studios at the International Studio & Curatorial Program with Guest Speaker Jonas Mekas'
5/11/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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LONDON EVENING STANDARD: 'Jackalope Hotel, Mornington Peninsula - hotel review'
28/10/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature