Emily Floyd joins Ames Yavuz
9 Sep 2025
Portrait of Emily Floyd, photographed by Arsineh Houspian
Ames Yavuz is pleased to announce the international representation of celebrated Australian artist, 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.
Emily Floyd, Steiner Regenbogen, 2025, plywood, synthetic polymer paint, 3 x 6 x 6 meters, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Telling Tales: excursions in narrative form, 2016, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
“I always approach the making of an artwork from a position of learning, being curious about new ideas and embedding them into objects” — Emily Floyd
Floyd has widely exhibited in institutional exhibitions around the world. Her iconic sculpture Steiner Regenbogen is currently on view as part of For Children, Art Stories since 1968 at Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, until 1 February 2026. The exhibition traces universal themes of humanity, society, politics, economics, ecology, technology and the future — ideas first encountered in childhood that hold significance throughout our lives.
In October 2025 Floyd will present a new major sculptural installation for the 2025 Singapore Biennale titled pure intention. Extending her ongoing Field Libraries series, the work will be sited at Singapore’s historic Rail Corridor.
Upcoming this month, we are excited to feature a new sculptural work at Sydney Contemporary from 11-14 September 2025.
Floyd’s work is held in major public and private collections internationally, including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, and the United States. Public commissions include Knowledge Power! (Shanghai Library East, China), King Parrots (Union Station, Melbourne), and Owl of Minerva (Wesley Place, Melbourne), among others. Floyd is represented in Australia by Anna Schwartz Gallery.