Who is Emma Collins?

Emma Collins is a South Australian artist who grew up in the Clare Valley and now lives and works by the sea in Tiddy Widdy Beach. A lifelong creator, she has been drawing since childhood, later studying Graphic Design and working as a freelance designer. Her commitment to painting deepened through the Milan Art Institute’s Mastery Program, where she found not only her artistic voice but also the path of art as spiritual practice.

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Working in a bold, thought-provoking style that blends other-worldly vision with realism, Emma uses mixed media — inks, acrylics, charcoal, oil pastels, and oils — to build rich, layered surfaces. Heavily influenced by Vedanta philosophy and her background in Psychology, her work explores the nature of identity and consciousness. “I don’t want you to just look at my art,” she says. “I want it to look back at you and ask — who are you, really?”

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Her paintings and exhibitions invite both beauty and discomfort, encouraging viewers to peel away the masks of self and encounter deeper truth. From her rustic coastal studio on the Yorke Peninsula, she is currently preparing her Unmasked series for the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2026. Future ambitions include hosting transformative art retreats and curating exhibitions that uplift emerging artists.

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Through her work, Emma Collins Artist embodies art as alchemy — a continual process of unmasking, awakening, and creating gold from the raw material of human experience.

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WHO MY ART IS FOR
My work speaks to thinkers, seekers, and spiritually attuned individuals who want more than pretty décor. My collectors are those willing to look within, to confront both light and darkness, and to allow art to be a catalyse their own transformation.

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