About

Florence Steel is an emerging visual artist working predominantly on Ngunawal/Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country (Canberra).

Through symbolic oil painting and multi-media installation, Florence explores personal and cultural relationships to the universe. Their work sits at the intersection of art history, metaphysics, and cosmology, referencing both historical and contemporary iconographic languages. Through their practice, Florence pushes the boundaries of representation, exploring how knowledge is constructed through symbolic and material processes.

Steel is currently completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Bachelor of Art History and Curatorship at ANU.

Contact:

Email: florencemsteel@gmail.com

Instagram: @florencesteel.art

Public Installation

2024 Star Net, Black Mountain Peninsula

Group exhibitions

2025 Moonlighting, group show. Curated by Claudia Hunt and Riley Curtain.

2024 HoPE (Homies of Planet Earth), Tributary Projects. Curated by Dmitry Grishin.

Concurrent, Blank Gallery, group show.

Buugang Giilang, ANU Photospace Gallery, group show.

About People, Dear Prudence, group show. Curated by Evy & Meg Stuart.

2022 Exquisite Corpse, ANU School of Art

Awards and Prizes

2025 (Finalist) ANU School of Art Drawing Prize

2023 (Finalist) ANU School of Art Drawing Prize

2022 (Finalist) ANU School of Art Drawing Prize

2019 (People’s choice) Metamorphosis, Belconnen Arts Centre

2018 (Finalist) Young Archie’s, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Collections

2025 Epworth Medical Foundation, VIC

2025 Lyrebird Dreaming, ACT

Private collections, VIC, NSW, ACT

Selected stage installation

2025 Gold Dust Festival

2024 Zouina, Gang Gang cafe and bar

Xaphaniia, EP launch

Sundowner, Gang Gang cafe and bar