Emily Floyd (born Melbourne, Australia, 1972) works in both print and sculpture. Her prints – primarily lithographs – also incorporate bold colour and geometrical forms, referencing the work of the early Modernist movements and collectives such as De Stijl, the Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism. However, this work does not engage with the work of artists associated with these movements on a purely formal level, as Floyd is interested equally in the way such sophisticated formal languages are used to communicate political ideologies. This emphasis upon art and activism extends also to Floyds’ interest in Australian political posters from the 1970s and in the graphic work of Sister Corita Kent.

Below another sky was the first collaborative programme developed by the Scottish Print Network, a partnership between Dundee Contemporary Arts, Edinburgh Printmakers, Glasgow Print Studio, Highland Print Studio, Inverness and Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen.

10 artists from Scotland and 10 from Commonwealth countries were invited to undertake research residencies during 2013 and 2014. Artists from Scotland travelled to Antigua, Baffin Bay, Bangladesh, Canada, India, New Zealand and Zambia; artists from Australia, Canada, India and Pakistan were on residency in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness.

Each artist worked with one of the five print studios on the development of ambitious and innovative new work in print, taking full advantage of the excellent range of resources, equipment and expertise available through each organisation.

Below another sky takes its name from the poem ‘Travel’, published in 1865 by the Edinburgh-born author Robert Louis Stevenson.

http://belowanothersky.org/