Emily Floyd: The Dawn

Overview

With the sun out in full force and Melbourne's iconic winter blues all but a distant memory, there's never been a better time (nor title) for Emily Floyd's latest exhibition. Cataloguing 13 years of her big, bright sculptural installation works, The Dawn is the perfect way to kill some time on a lazy summer afternoon — a fun combination of bright primary colours and giant building blocks that seem to have catapulted themselves straight from your childhood toy chest.

Known best for her large-scale sculptures that are often exhibited in public spaces, Emily Floyd's clean style and modernist design has made her one of Melbourne's most recognisable artists in recent years. Though she's exhibited overseas in the past, you may have caught her work locally at Heide, Anna Schwartz Gallery, or MUMA (she also lectures in Fine Art at Monash University).

In this, her first solo retrospective, you're in for the full experience. Step into the NGV expecting a world of abstract goodness — the kind of frustratingly simple and beautiful designs that will make you want to redecorate your living room ASAP.