About

Emma Creasey is a visual artist whose work blends that which is real and that which is fantastical. Her creative process can be likened to an interior collage—a mesh of influences and ideas then made real upon a canvas.

While idea formation anchors her practice, Creasey allows intuition and the physical gesture of painting to direct the work, allowing each story to reveal itself through the medium. Her recent work delves deeper into narrative imbued with surrealism, where the figure is both cast as ‘self’ and as ‘other’. Her SylvaC Figurines series, the result of focused and repeated study, takes a more experimental approach, focusing on presence and process-driven exploration rendered in monochromatic hues.

Creasey has exhibited at galleries in Naarm/Melbourne, Eora/Sydney, Meeanjin/ Brisbane. The artist has participated in artist residencies in Lutruwita/Tasmania and has facilitated drawing classes at the National Gallery Victoria.

- words by Claire Summers