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Emma Fielden is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land in Sydney. Her practice explores processes of time and transformation, tracing how matter and bodies meet, resist and affect one another. 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 hold and release.

Fielden’s work has been exhibited regularly since 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include The Sky Swallowed a Stone (UNSW Galleries, 2025) and Hours of Stars (Passage, 2024). Her work has been included in group exhibitions such as Infinite: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2024), The Unseen (Blacktown Arts Centre, 2023), Radical Slowness (The Lock-Up, 2022) and On Earth (QUT Art Museum, 2022). She has been awarded prizes including The Paramor Prize Mayoral Award (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 2017) and has been a finalist in awards such as the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2025), the Mosman Art Prize (Mosman Art Gallery, 2024), National Works on Paper (Morning Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2022), the NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (Artspace / Create NSW, 2017), and The Blake Prize (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 2016).

Emma has recently completed the requirements for a Master of Fine Arts (Research) at the University of New South Wales. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Jewellery and Object Design, and an Associate Diploma in Music (Performance). From 2016 to 2021, she held a studio at Parramatta Artists Studios. In 2018, she was awarded a fellowship to attend the Art Omi Artists Residency in Upstate New York.