Collection: Naomi McCurdie

@omimccurdie

Naomi McCurdie, born in 1984, is a Sydney-based multi-disciplinary artist working across ceramics, sculpture, painting, installation, printmaking and video. Her work focuses on themes of grief, life, death, birth, the zoomorphic and the absurd. Storytelling is integral to her practice, and although her work is often autobiographical, it does draw inspiration from literature, plays and folklore. As a surgeon's daughter, McCurdie is fascinated by the human body's inner workings and functions, exploring the human body anatomically. She is focused on the body's disintegration from disease and illness and channels this interest into her sculptural pieces.

Before McCurdie came to practising art, she was a classically trained actor who worked in London, New York, and Sydney. McCurdie starred in a documentary by international multimedia artist Izabella Gustowska, which told the explosive story of Josephine, Edward Hopper's wife, as she searched for her muse in the streets, bridges, and underground of contemporary New York City.

McCurdie was fortunate to be selected as a finalist for many local Art prizes. Her most notable was the Mosman Art Prize with her painting Drought in 2019. More recently, McCurdie won the Waverley Woollahra People's Choice Award for etching Adelaide Street in 2021.