Emma Hodges is an artist whose practice explores themes of multicultural identity, community building and storytelling. They graduated from the ANU School of Art and Design in 2019 with first class honours in painting. Since then, Emma has been a recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, performed at the Biennale of Sydney and gave a keynote speech at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for Accessible Arts as part of NSW Women’s week. As well as working in the Messengers program Emma is also currently a Lead Educator at the National Gallery of Australia.