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.

Her 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). Upcoming exhibitions include The Sky Swallowed a Stone at UNSW Galleries and the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.

Fielden is a sessional lecturer at the University of New South Wales School of Art & Design. She is a recipient of the Paramor Prize: Mayoral Award (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre) and the National Contemporary Jewellery Award (Griffith Regional Gallery), 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. In 2018, she was awarded a fellowship to attend the Art Omi Artist’s Residency in Upstate New York.

Image: Dialogue (2020)