biography
Floria Tosca’s practice encompasses painting, drawing and animation. It illuminates the dualities of existence; strength and fragility, the beautiful and the grotesque, life and death. Tosca was raised in a rural settling that nourished her communion with the natural world.The artist possesses a sensitivity to our impact upon the environment, as well as nature’s place in our psyche. This complex relationship of the organic and human footprint often plays out in her compositions with what is mythical, bizarre or overlooked.
Awards and Prizes
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
2000
FONAS Printmaking Prize for outstanding student in second year (Winner), National Art School
AQ Wine National Art Prize (finalist and highly commended), WA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS
2014
Democracy of Drawing, AirSpace Marickville, NSW
Beastly, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, NSW
2013
Low Relief, Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern, NSW
2013
Colour Forms, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, NSW
2012
FSG Group Show, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2011
Modern Ritual, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, NSW
2010
Composite, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2009
Four Sydney Abstractionists, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, NSW
Collectors, Sheffer Gallery, Darlington, NSW
Ceramicism, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, NSW
New Abstractions, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
PRESS
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