EMILY FLOYD

For over 25 years, Melbourne-based Floyd has held a unique position in the field of expanded sculpture. Her practice is rooted in transformation and playful translation, coding and recoding ideas from modernism, utopian thinking, speculative-fiction, alternative pedagogies and the history of Australian social movements into vivid interactive sculptural objects and public projects.

Born into a family of toymakers, Floyd draws on the work of educationalists such as Friedrich Froebel and Rudolph Steiner to explore how hands-on encounters with contemporary art can deepen our understanding of the ‘constructed actuality’ around us. Lacquered, lightweight and disarmingly sleek, her works often take the form of educational building blocks, asking us to question how we create and accrue societal meaning.

Courtesy Ames Yavuz