McCurdie’s sculptural practice explores the emotional complexities of life, death, grief, feminism, and the body. Working primarily through figurative and hybrid forms, she creates sculptures that occupy the space between beauty and the grotesque, tenderness and discomfort. Through mythology, symbolism, and imagined characters, her work investigates the psychological landscapes of emotional upheaval, where pain and joy, vulnerability and resilience exist simultaneously.

Sculpture allows McCurdie to give physical form to emotions that are often difficult to articulate. She is drawn to sculpture's capacity to embody both fragility and permanence, creating works that feel at once ancient and deeply personal. The handmade surfaces embrace imperfection, revealing traces of touch and process that reflect the complexities of the human condition.

Her practice draws on folklore, memory, and lived experience, using the language of the uncanny to explore themes of transformation, devotion, and mortality. By blurring the boundaries between the beautiful and the grotesque, McCurdie invites viewers to consider the contradictions that shape emotional life, suggesting that tenderness and suffering are not opposites, but deeply intertwined experiences.