Client: Charter Hall
Location: Sydney, Australia
Completion date: 2017
Project Team
Artist
Emily Floyd
Industry Resource
UAP Brisbane
UAP
Overview
Internationally renowned Australian Artist Emily Floyd worked with UAP (uapcompany.com) to deliver her artwork, Allegory of a Cave, for One Parramatta Square (1PSQ), a new commercial development in Sydneyās west. The artwork is the result of a Public Art Masterplan and curation process conducted in partnership with the City of Parramatta and in collaboration with artist and curator, Callum Morton. Floydās work is comprised of 104 square aluminium blocks of varying heights and colours, suspended in a grid beneath the exterior soffit of the 1PSQ building.
Goals
Taking its title from the Greek philosopher Platoās āAllegory of the Caveā, Floyd utilises her signature bold and colourful shapes to gesture towards experimental approaches in educational philosophies and open ended enquiry. Creating her own interpretation of a āknowledge caveā, Floydās work affirms the precinct as an optimistic public space and a centre for information and knowledge production.