Serena Curmi’s work is caught between the past and present, marked and mottled with memories and histories. Brought up on a sailboat, she spent her childhood viewing the world from afar, schooled across continents and making multiple homes in the Caribbean, the Isle of Man, Malta, Spain and America. Her work has been shown in the Discerning Eye and at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) and her recent series the Bedlam Case Studies, was a finalist in the 2018 Threadneedle Prize.

Curmi is currently working on a new series of portraits, informed by the archives at Glenside Hospital, and a collection of imagined landscapes, focusing on the sublimity of mountaintops and places of exploration. She lives and works in Bristol, based at Jamaica Street Artists Studios.

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