Biography

Education

Awards

Residencies

Solo Shows

Selected Group Shows

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