Omi McCurdie is a multidisciplinary artist based on Eora/Sydney. She holds both a Master of Fine Art (Drawing) and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Ceramics) from the National Art School, graduating with High Distinction in both degrees. During her studies, she received the Anne Pata Memorial Drawing Prize, the N.E. Pethebridge Award for Ceramics, and the Arts Matter Award (2025).

Working across drawing, painting, printmaking, film, performance, installation, sculpture, and ceramics, McCurdie’s practice explores themes of grief, domesticity, the absurd, feminism, and the body. Through storytelling and material experimentation, her work examines the relationships between personal experience, memory, cultural narratives, and embodied knowledge.

Most recently, McCurdie presented her solo exhibition Don’t Sit on the Cake Table at Robin Gibson Gallery, exploring gender norms, domestic expectations, and the lingering influence of 1980s and 1990s chauvinistic culture. She is currently developing Sweethearts, a sculptural work for Sculpture by the Sea (2026) that addresses domestic violence, with particular attention to women killed by intimate male partners. The work considers the intersections of love, possession, gendered violence, and the cultural narratives that surround intimate relationships.

In 2026, McCurdie’s experimental film The Ironing Woman was selected for the 12th Logcinema Art Film Festival in Argentina and received an Honourable Mention at the Experimental Film Festival.

Before pursuing a career in visual arts, McCurdie worked as a theatre actor in London and New York with the Michael Chekhov Theatre Company.