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Emily Floyd was born in Melbourne in 1972 which makes her 36 or 37 and she studied art first at the Swinburne university of technology in 1992 and then went on to study sculpture at the Royal Melbourne University of Technology in 1999. I found out about this artist when I searched for the the people that made the sculptures on eastlink . Emily Floyd is actually the artist that made the big black bird eating a big yellow worm. In 2007 she was told that a panel made up of Janet Holmes a Court (one of the richest women in Australia), eastlink director Yvonne von Harlet and architect Roger Wood that her sculpture, public art strategy was going to be put on eastlink. On public art strategy there are some obvious art elements, two of them are colour and shape. The shapes in the sculpture are clever in making the bird out of shapes like a cone for the beak, triangles for wings and rectangles for a tail, legs and feet. the worm is only made up of rectangles. Colour in the sculpture is fairly plain with the bird just being black and the worm just being yellow. The materials used in this sculpture were only steel for the shaping and the overall sculpture and paint to give it colour.

(below is a picture of Emily in 2007 with her print, a bird like that never dies)