Emily Floyd (born 1972) is an Australian artist working in public art, sculpture and print making. [2] Her family were toy makers in traditional European styles — carefully crafted of wood. She learned the skills and use of machinery, which are reflected and used in …

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.

Emily Floyd is an internationally-acclaimed Australian artist whose works can be found in prestigious collections all over the world, including the National Gallery of Australia and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Working in sculpture, print-making and public installation, Emily Floyd’s work engages with a wide range of fields including educational models, political ideologies, typography and community participation. Intersecting public space with carefully considered design, Floyd creates bold spaces for public engagement and interaction.

Nov 18, 2014 · Emily Floyd’s works are immediately inviting. Be it sculpture, print or public artwork, Floyd’s bright palette, expertly rendered geometric forms and the incorporation of text invite interaction. But while the works are accessible, they are never simple.

Mar 26, 2023 · Working across sculpture and public installation, Narrm / Melbourne-based artist Emily Floyd (b.1972) uses her work to explore histories of play. Her practice employs modes of making, doing, and communicating as a means of framing investigations into public philosophy, socially engaged design, typography, language, and the legacies of modernism.

Emily Floyd Curriculum Vitae 1972 Born Melbourne, Australia EDUCATION 1999 Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 Chosen by a Cat, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2023 Kesh Alphabet, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Emily Floyd: The Dawn is a survey exhibition of the work of Melbourne based artist Emily Floyd. The exhibition features keynote works dating from 2001 to 2014 including major installations, lesser-known early works and two newly commissioned interactive spaces …

With 15 years of arts practice and various large scale public commissions to her name, Emily's responses for today's story are a timely reminder of just how important artists and the arts community is in a wider context.

The Melbourne-based Australian artist Emily Floyd explores this history of pedagogical play in her work, employing it as a frame for investigations into design, typography, protest, public art and the legacy of Modernism.