Emma Fielden is a multidisciplinary Australian artist working across performance, drawing, painting and video. Her practice explores the alchemic forces of time, memory and transformation, tracing the ways matter and gesture entangle to create meaning. Grounded in elemental materials such as metal and stone, Fielden’s work often unfolds through processes of 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 upcoming solo exhibition, The Sky Swallowed a Stone, will run from 29 August to 16 November at UNSW Galleries.

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). She holds an Advanced Diploma in Jewellery and Object Design and an Associate Diploma in Music (performance). She was recently awarded a Highly Commended in the 2025 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, and has been a finalist in 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, and in 2018 was awarded a fellowship to attend the Art Omi Artist’s Residency in Upstate New York.

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