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If you are interested in traces, you are interested in the shortest possible bridge between life and the record of life’.
- Antony Gormley, “In Conversation with James Putnam”, 2004


Esme Curtis-Lundberg is Fine Art Printmaker, specialising in etching. Her practice revolves around the physicality of making, with a particular interest in recording and 
re-valuing the traces of labour and craft through etching.

Born in Norfolk in 2002, she graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art Printmaking from the University of Brighton in 2024 and now works from her studio in the city.



University of Brighton                 
Sep 2021 – July 2024

BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking 
– First Class Honours                                                              


City College Norwich
Sep 2020 – Aug 2021                                                                      

UAL Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design 
– Distinction                                   



‘CASS Art & Phoenix Art Space Studio Award’                                                        
May 2024


‘Bridge Award’ – University of Brighton School 
    of Art and Media                               
Jan 2023



Jerwood Residencies at Edinburgh Printmakers                              
Oct 2025

Cass Art & Phoenix Studio Award 
– Graduate in Residence
Sep 2024 – Aug 2025



‘Workers’ Blue & Other Fibres: A Solo Exhibition by Esme Curtis-Lundberg’
Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
July – Aug 2025




‘Giant’s Soap Dish’
– Electro Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea 
Jan 2025


‘International Original Print Exhibition 2024’
Royal Society of Painter Printmakers 
– Bankside Gallery , London
Nov 2024


‘Paperwork’
– Newhaven Arts Project, Newhaven
Nov 2024                                  


‘Shorelines’
Guest Artist with Salt Edge Arts
 – South Hill Barn, Seaford 
Aug 2024                                                                            


‘Graduate Artists’
– Newhaven Arts Project, Newhaven                                                                 
June/July 2024


‘University of Brighton BA Degree Shows 2024’
– Grand Parade, Brighton
May/June 2024                                                      


‘In The Corner Of My Eye’
Fresh Salad Collective
– Koppel Collective Chalk Farm, London
April 2024


‘The Hanging Garden’
– Gallery 19a, Brighton
March 2023  


‘The Directory’
– Koop Gallery, Brighton
Jan 2023                                                                                 



Selected Group Shows