#floyer

Around the time that Ceal Floyer, who has died aged 57 of a brain tumour, was arriving on the stage of the international art world in the 1990s, she was already developing the idea of a performance in a major concert hall that spoke to her nervousness and unease about her newfound status. However, when she approached the Sydney Opera House with her proposal as part of the city’s 1998 biennale, it…

In Memoriam This week, we honor a conceptualist who made the ordinary human, a wide-ranging photographer, and a filmmaker who made space for others. Portrait of Ceal Floyer (© Hugo Glendinning; courtesy 303 Gallery) In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world. Ceal Floyer (1968–2025)British conceptual artist who made the quotidian…

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