Anna Schwartz Gallery

As part of her commission for the Ian Potter Sculpture Court, This Place Will Always be Open, MUMA and Emily Floyd have put together a public forum titled 'Disobedience', examining the history and legacy of student protest movements on campus at Monash University. Disobedience will focus on the origins of student activism at Monash University and the 'student struggles' of The Monash Labor Club in the 1960s and 70s; their unique understanding of Marxism and the application of their praxis to contemporary forms of occupation, Situationism, information technology and knowledge production. Also on display will be Students in Dissent, a group project initiated by Warren Taylor, Stewart Russell, and Emily Floyd with participation by students from Monash Art Design and Architecture. The group worked together to research, document and reproduce printed ephemera relating to the student movements of the late 1960s, focusing on the pivotal actions of students at Monash University following the events of Paris May 68.

'Disobedience: The Monash Labor Club and student struggles of the 1960s and '70s' Wednesday 22 May 2013, 5.30 - 7.30pm, Monash University Museum of Art.

Convener: Dr Kate Murphy, Lecturer in Contemporary History, Monash University
Speakers: Darce Cassidy, Mike Hyde, Jill Jolliffe, Ken Mansell and Dave Nadel

The Forum is free to attend but bookings are required. Please click here to book.

The first instalment in a new cultural exchange project, Sleep on the Left Side brings together new work by three leading contemporary Australian artists — Kate Daw, Emily Floyd and John Meade — at Seven Art Limited in New Delhi. All three artists have spent time in India and have been influenced by those experiences and the people they encountered.

In 2013, three contemporary Indian artists represented by Seven Art Limited — Aakash Nihalani, Brendan Fernandes and Saravanan Parasuraman — will travel to Melbourne to undertake artist residencies and participate in an exhibition at the University of Melbourne’s Margaret Lawrence Gallery at the Victorian College of the Arts.

20 December - 19 January at Seven Arts Gallery New Delhi
For more information http://sevenartlimited.com/

Emily Floyd has completed a major, architecturally integrated, sculpture titled New Ways of Thinking at Lacrosse, an Elenberg Fraser/Pan Urban project for Melbourne's Docklands Precinct.

Emily Floyd's This place will always be open, the inaugural Ian Potter Sculpture Commission at MUMA, opens Saturday 6 October, 2012.

Winding an unorthodox itinerary through the sculpture court at MUMA, This place will always be open, 2012 is a text-based sculptural work fabricated from painted and powder-coated steel. With a font designed by the artist, it derives its logic from modernist typography, albeit in a highly abstracted form. Almost – but not quite – pushed to the point of illegibil- ity (attesting to our distance from, and yet ongoing influence of the textual reference), Floyd’s high-key polychrome letters present a declarative, emblematic slogan, whilst being open from behind to reveal the constructivist manufacture and aesthetics of the work.

The letters themselves serve as a marker of place, and vari- ously operate as a form of civic discourse, public furniture, or library stack, creating a place where students and visitors can sit, read and enjoy the landscaped area of the sculpture court, while also reflecting upon a specific history and poten- tial invoked in what is an apparently simple sentence.

Emily Floyd’s work is the first in an annual series of com- missioned sculptural and/or architectural works, developed to establish new opportunities for artists, and new models of practice, thinking and research into public sculpture and architectural practice.

Details of the project are available here.

The first annual commission for the Ian Potter Sculpture Court will see a major new public work by Emily Floyd explore the role and legacy of the university campus (and museum) as a site of political potential. Drawing its title and conceptual framework from the experimental student struggles at Monash University during the 1960s and '70s, and incorporating a series of activities and publications instigated by Floyd, This Place Will Always Be Open serves as a space for social encounter - reinvoking a utopian spirit that is open, inclusive, free, provisional and generative.

For more information, click here

On Friday 26th October at 12.30pm, Emily Floyd will give a floor talk as part of her participation in the exhibition, Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art. The exhibition will run through September 2012 - February 2013 at NGV: Australia, Level 3, Galleries 13-16

Kunstverein Amsterdam based Curator Vivian Ziherl has instigated a new work of scholarship revisiting Australian Feminist publication LIP Magazine (1975-1983). As part of this project, and for the current issue of Discipline Magazine, Ziherl commissioned a group of Australian artists with critically engaged practices to respond to LIP in a contemporary context, for her contribution Emily Floyd responds to the radical gesture of Isobel Davies "Women's Art Game".

On Monday 15th October, as part of the Melbourne International Festival, Emily Floyd will speak at the event "Lemuria: Cultural Engagement Between Australia and India," together with Jitish Kallat, Gigi Scara, Nikhil Chopra and Dr Chaitanya Samdrani, The forum will chaired by Natalie King and Bala Starr.

Emily Floyd and architect Roger Wood discuss The Eastlink Freeway and Floyd's work "Public Art Strategy" with ABC Radio National broadcaster Michael MacKenzie.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bydesign/in-the-field---on-a-freeway/4195628

To mark its 30th Anniversary, the Australian Print Workshop has commissioned Emily Floyd and five other leading artists to create a new suite of print works.

Emily Floyd is participating in the group exhibition, 'Kindness/Udarta' at the India Habitat Centre, in New Dehli, India.

On Saturday 21 January in Delhi, artists Emily Floyd, Kate Daw, John Meade and Stewart Russell, together with curator Simon Maidment, will discuss their practice within the broader context of contemporary culture in Melbourne. The event - Melbourne Stories: Narrative, politic and place in contemporary art - is hosted by Sarai-CSDS. The presentations will be followed by a moderated group discussion.

Emily Floyd has been selected for the inaugural commission of the Jackson Bella room, 2012, situated in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s National Centre for Creative Learning. The Jackson Bella Commission is one of four major new contemporary works commissioned by the MCA to coincide with the opening of the new buildings in 2012.

Works by Emily Floyd are included in Home and Away, Limited Edition Prints from Australian Print Workshop, at the Australian Embassy Washington D.C. from 12th July - 15 September 2011.

Emily Floyd will participate in Cause and Effect, an innovative program of artist led workshops for people with special needs, using movement and gesture to facilitate art making. The project is an initiative of Yoralla Australia, and funded through Arts Victoria. Participating artists: Geoff Robinson, Bianca Hester, Lisa Radford, Kylie Forbes, Sam Peterson and Stuart Ringholt.

Works by Emily Floyd will be exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne in 10 ways to look at the past, curated by Jane Devery. Prints from Emily's time as an Australian Print Workshop fellow, as well as works from the NGV collection by nine other artists will be on view. The exhibition opens on 23 July, 2011 and continues until 5 February, 2012.

Emily Floyd's 2002 work 'It's because I talk too much that I do nothing' is the cover image for The Agamben Dictionary published by Edinburgh University Press 2010.

Work by Emily Floyd is included in the group exhibition Colour Bazaar: Eight Contemporary Works at Heide Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition dates: 12 February - 19 June, 2011.

Emily Floyd is speaking at the 7th Australian Print Symposium at the National Gallery of Australia on Friday the 15th of October.

Emily Floyd is creating An Unfolding Space, a major public art commission for the City of Stonnington to be unveiled in August 2010.

Work by Emily Floyd is included in Still, a group exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. Exhibition dates: 9 July - 29 August 2010

Work by Emily Floyd is included in In the Balance - Art for a Changing World, a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Exhibition dates: 19 August - 25 November 2010

Work by Emily Floyd is included in The Art of Chess, a group exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery. Exhibition dates: 30 October 2010 - 30 January 2011.

Emily Floyd's work The Cultural Studies Reader will be exhibited at the Sidney Myer Work on Paper Gallery at Bendigo Art Gallery from 6 February - 28 March 2010.

Emily Floyd will exhibit in Why do we do the things we do, a group show curated by Jacqueline Doughty at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts from 18 August – 18 October 2009.

21st August - 31st January

4 - 29 March 2009

Emily Floyd in Better Places , curated by Melissa Keys, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

Emily Floyd in Optimism , Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Melbourne's EastLink Freeway's $5.5 million public art collection was unveiled 27 November

Temple of the Female Eunuch is an exploration into the complexities of feminism.