Emma Fielden is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. Her practice is grounded in an embodied relationship with elemental materials such as metal and stone, unfolding through repetition, endurance and slow change.

Emma holds a Master of Fine Arts (Research) from the University of New South Wales. Her MFA thesis, Stone & Breath: Inheriting Materiality and Embodied Practice, examines how inherited materials and embodied processes are activated to generate new artistic methodologies across drawing, painting and performance. She also holds an Advanced Diploma in Jewellery and Object Design, and an Associate Diploma in Music (Performance).

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).

Emma has won awards including the Paramor Prize Mayoral Award (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 2017) and was finalist in prizes 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, 2017), and The Blake Prize (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 2016). Her work is held collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia, La Trobe Regional Gallery, and Griffith Regional Art Gallery, as well as private collections in Australia and abroad. 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.

Emma is a sessional lecturer at the University of New South Wales, School of Art & Design.

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