Emma Fielden is a multidisciplinary artist working across expanded drawing, painting, performance and sculptural installation. Her practice explores processes of time, memory and transformation, tracing how matter and gesture entangle to create meaning. Grounded in elemental materials such as metal and stone, Fielden’s work often unfolds through repetition, endurance and slow change. Moving between the intimate and the infinite, her body becomes a conduit, bridging the physical properties of materials with the abstract concepts they carry and release.

Fielden’s work has been exhibited regularly since 2007, with recent presentations including Infinite: Dobell Drawing Biennial (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2024) and Hours of Stars (Passage, 2024). Her solo exhibition, The Sky Swallowed a Stone, is showing at UNSW Galleries from 29 August to 16 November 2025.

Emma is a sessional lecturer at the University of New South Wales School of Art & Design, where she is also in the final stages of a Master of Fine Arts (Research) degree. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Jewellery & Object Design and an Associate Diploma in Music (performance). She is a finalist in the upcoming KAAF Art Prize at the Korea-Australia Arts Foundation, was Highly Commended in the 2025 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, and has been a finalist in numerous other prizes, such as the Mosman Art Prize, National Works on Paper, and the NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship. From 2016 to 2021, she held a studio at Parramatta Artists’ Studios. In 2018, she was awarded a fellowship to attend the prestigious Art Omi Artist’s Residency in Upstate New York.

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