Floria Tosca was born in Seoul and moved to Australia as a young child. She studied medicine and music, and worked as a doctor for many years before deciding to study at the National Art School in Sydney.

Tosca's practice, which encompasses painting, drawing and animation illuminates the dualities of existence; strength and fragility, the beautiful and grotesque, life and death. She was raised in a rural setting that nourished her communion with the natural world and with her training in medicine she 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.