Monash artist receives prestigious art fellowship
Emily Floyd
The Faculty of Art Design and Architecture's Emily Floyd is one of ten recipients to receive a $160,000 Sidney Myer Fellowship for mid-career artists.
The unrestricted two-year grant was awarded yesterday to Ms Floyd, a lecturer in Fine Art.
Ms Floyd, one of five Victorian recipients this year, said receiving the grant was a tremendous honour.
“The Fellowship will enable me to make a whole new body of work and to continue experimenting with public space, it’s an awesome opportunity,” she said.
The Fellowship program has awarded 47 mid-career artists since it began in 2011, including previous Faculty of Art Design and Architecture recipients Tom Nicholson (2013) and Brook Andrew (2011).
Ms Floyd, a Melbourne artist whose studio is based at the Abbotsford Convent, works primarily in sculpture and public installation. She is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery and is currently included in the central exhibition of the 56th Venice Biennale, All the World’s Futures, at the invitation of Nigerian born curator by Okwui Enwezor.
To be nominated for a Fellowship, artists and thought leaders must be within seven and 15 years into their creative practice and meet two criteria: outstanding talent and exceptional professional courage. The Fellowships are open to artists and arts managers across the entire spectrum of the visual, performing, interdisciplinary, new media and literary arts.