Emma Currie

Emma Currie is a Melbourne-based painter known for her distinctive style, which draws from the visual language of Cubism and reinterprets the historical female nude. While her practice is varied, she has recently expanded her exploration of the body by capturing close-cropped fragments of everyday interactions and fleeting moments.

Working on a small scale, Emma creates a sense of intimacy between painting and viewer, suggesting implied narratives that feel both familiar and elusive. Her compositions evoke a quiet tension, inviting reflections on themes of memory, nostalgia, and desire. Through these carefully framed pictorial fragments, she balances containment and expansiveness, transforming the personal into the universal.

Emma’s work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and is held in numerous private collections around the world.