biography

Reanna Emanouel creates intricate paintings which seem to have a life of their own. Much like the fantastical novels of great writers such as Jules Verne or Frank Herbert, her works seem to depict figures which are characters, rather than just models. Each has a story to tell as they wrap themselves up in fine linen or lay half-naked on an open landscape full of life and imaginative colors. Reanna is a gifted painter who takes the medium far beyond what most artists achieve in today's time through subtle psychology, dream-like landscapes, poetic interpretations of motifs such as interactions with linen, and astonishing realism. She invokes frailty and vivid emotion with each composition through carefully choreographed body language and facial expressions. Much like a theatre director, Reanna creates dramatic scenery which convey poetic displays of relationships between characters and their environments or compositions. Reanna Emanouel's brush remains refined, philosophical, poignant, and sincere to her experiences and vivid imagination.

Group/solo exhibitions and publications

Recent:
2018-2025
Brisbane Rotary Art Show, Brisbane City (12–26 July 2025)
The Doyles Art Award, Gold Coast (3–13 July 2025)
Aedra Fine Arts Catalogue NYC.
Visual Art Journal Interview.
Callinan Chambers Law Firm Exhibition, Brisbane City.
Swell Sculpture Festival, Gold Coast.
Hidden Gems, Petrie Terrace Gallery, Brisbane City.
Small Works Art Prize Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne.
All Women" Art Exhibition, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Art-Collide Finalist.
International Art Competition Blue Space Emerging Artists Finalist.
Early:
2011–2016
New York City Children’s Foundation Gallery (2015)
Art Gallery Icosahedron, New York (2011)
The Golden Age, 606 W 26th St, New York (5–26 February 2011)
Into the Void, Curated by Robert Berry (January 2011)

Aedra Fine Arts Catalogue

Visual Art Journal Interview