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Emma Buckland

Melbourne, Victoria

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Solo Exhibitions

Collected Works (2021), Ladder Art Space, Hawthorn VIC

Solo debut weaving memory and media fragments into immersive paintings

Group Exhibitions

Alcohol by Victoria (2025), Eat, Drink, Art Festival (Fiesta Program), Bendigo VIC

Presented as part of the Fiesta Program alongside Bendigo Art Gallery’s “Frida Kahlo: In Her Own Image” exhibition

Old Auction House (2024), Kyneton VIC

Reimagined regional heritage in a collaborative showcase of emerging talent

Midsumma Festival Premiere (2013), Red Gallery, North Fitzroy VIC

Part of Midsumma Festival’s Premiere Visual Arts series, presenting layered, collage-inspired works exploring memory and transition

Kyneton Stockroom (2012), Kyneton VIC

Contributed to a dynamic regional group exhibition of contemporary Australian artists

In the Mind’s Eye (2004), Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne VIC

Debut exploring psychological landscapes through vivid visual narratives.

Statement

Painting has always been my way of bringing the unseen to the surface—turning emotions, memories, and fleeting moments into something real, layered, and immersive.

Drawing on narratives found in newspaper photographs, magazines, and family portraits, my work investigates the tension between memory and reality, often blurring the boundaries between the two. I’m drawn to the deeply personal as a means of storytelling, using symbolism and fragmented recollections to weave layered, dreamlike narratives.

Influenced by German Expressionism and the illustrative painter Neo Rauch, I integrate unsettling, comic-strip elements and ambiguous juxtapositions, creating compositions that feel both familiar and distorted. My paintings invite viewers into a shifting space where personal history collides with collective consciousness—and where the past is never quite what it seems.