biography
Floria Tosca is a multi disciplinary practitioner drawing on her life experience growing up in a rural environment, her musical training as a violist and her years working as a medical doctor. Her non anthropocentric views inform her practice, which illuminates the complexities and interconnectedness of our existence. The artist possesses a sensitivity to our impact upon the environment, as well as nature’s place in our psyche.
Awards, Prizes AND RESIDENCIES
2024
Bundanon Residency, Bundanon NSW, as part of Dirt Witch Scrub Collective
Ethics Centre Reidency, Sydney NSW, as part of Dirt Witch Scrub Collective
2022
Halloran Contemporary Art Prize (finalist), Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, NSW
JADA, Drawing Prize (finalist), Grafton Regional GalleryDobe, NSW, in touring exhibition in regional NSW until 2024
Dobell Drawing Prize #23 (finalist), National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW, on touring exhibition until 2025
FLOW, Watercolour Prize (finalist), Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW
2019 North Sydney Art Prize (finalist), Coal Loader Site, Waverton, NSW FLOW, Watercolour Prize (finalist), Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW
2018
65th Blake Prize (finalist), Casula Power House, Casula, NSW KAAF Art Prize (finalist), Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney, NSW AIT.Motion Awards (animation finalist), Events Cinemas Sydney, NSW
2009
Dobell Prize for Drawing (finalist), Art Gallery of NSW
2008
FONAS Cover Award (Winner), Summer 2008/09 edition, National Art School, Sydney
57th Blake Prize Exhibition (finalist), NAS Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
2005
Residency in Printmaking, National Art School, Sydney
Hazelhurst Art On Paper Award (finalist), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2002
Silk Cut Award for linocut prints (finalist and acquired for the Silk Cut Collection), VIC
2001
The Australian Galleries Works on Paper Exhibition Award (Winner), for outstanding achievement, National Art School, Sydney
The Ken Done Prize for outstanding academic achievement (Winner), National Art School, Sydney
Hazelhurst Art On Paper Award (finalist), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Future Pagan, Nanda Hobbs Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2022
My Anthropocentric Wunderkammer, Nanda Hobbs Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2020 Bearing Witness, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2018
Aphrodite and Old Eutopias, Flinders Street Gallery, NSW
2014
New work, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2013
Geochrome 5, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2010
Monochromaphobia, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2009
Fowl Play, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
PUBLIC ART WORKS
2024
Inner West Council
GreenWays Public Art
Installation late 2024
2023
Canada Bay Public Art Work
Clermont Avenue Food Guardian, North Strathfield, NSW
2021
Orange Regional Council and Orange Regional Gallery Future City
Biome, Orange, NSW
https://www.orange.nsw.gov.au/gallery/public-art/
2020
City of Sydney Laneways
Barlow Street Forrest, Haymarket, NSW as part of Dirt Witch Collective
https://www.cityartsydney.com.au/artwork/barlow-street-forest/
PRESS
2022
Sydney Morning Herald, John McDonald Good Weekend Dobell prize article
2020 Art Edit Magazine, Artist profile feature, August Issue
2018 Gillian Serisier, Australian Design Review, Sept Issue
2013
Michael Fitzgerald, Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, July 6-7
2009
Tracey Clement, Dobell Prize, Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 23
Roseanne Schefe, These porkers wallow in Pigs’ Day Out, The Chronicle (Toowoomba), Feb 27
Tracey Clement, Metropicks, Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 30
Nick Dent, Time Out Sydney, Jan 21, No 53
Gillian Serisier, The art of space, the space of art, (inside) interior design review, Issue No55
Gillian Serisier, The Art Market Report, Sept 2008
2004
Pia Larsen, IMPRINT, Autumn, Volume 39, Print Council Of Australia
EDUCATION
2020 Bachelor of Integrative Media, AIT, Sydney, NSW, Australia (current)
2003
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
2001
Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking), with Distinction, National Art School, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1991
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia