Purchased for The National — Foundation News, Art Gallery of NSW

Emily Floyd, Kesh alphabet, 2017, aluminium, two part epoxy paint, steel fixtures, screen prints on paper (not shown), dimensions variable (Collection of the Art Gallery of NSW)

This year, I have been working as a staff writer and editor for the Foundation of the Art Gallery of NSW. In the May digital edition of the Foundation News I covered the contemporary art program The National. 

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The National 2017: new Australian art (30 March - 16 July 2017) is the first of three biennial surveys of contemporary art. The National is simultaneously presented throughout three of Sydney's preeminent cultural institutions: The Art Gallery of NSW, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Carriageworks. At the heart of the Art Gallery of NSW's display are two new acquisitions funded by the Gallery's Contemporary Collection Benefactors (CCB) and Atelier (Young Patrons) benefaction groups: Emily Floyd's specially commissioned Kesh alphabet and Gordon Bennett's Home décor (after M Preston) #18 (2012).

... Floyd's vast and brightly coloured aluminium installation of abstracted typographic forms inhabits the Gallery's central court, inviting visitors to wander through. The artist references the fictional alphabet described by science-fiction author Ursula Le Guin in her novel Always coming home, written in 1985 as an anthropological study of a future matriarchal 'Kesh' society.