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Emma Fielden

Emma Fielden

Master by Research (MRes)
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design

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Emma Fielden is a multidisciplinary Australian artist residing on Gadigal and Darkinjung land. She holds an Associate Diploma in Music Performance (1995) and an Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design (2006). Emma's work has been regularly exhibited since 2007.

Throughout her career, Emma has received numerous awards, including the Art Omi Australia Committee Fellowship (2018), the Paramor Prize Mayoral Award (2017), and the National Contemporary Jewellery Award (2014). She has been a finalist for several prestigious awards, such as the Mosman Art Prize (2024), National Works on Paper (2022), and the NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship at Artspace Sydney (2017). Her work has also garnered support through grants from the Australia Council, Create NSW, and NAVA.

Emma was a resident of Parramatta Artists' Studios and Parramatta Artists’ Studios Rydalmere from 2016 to 2021. In 2018, she was awarded a fellowship to participate in the prestigious Art Omi Artists’ Residency in New York.
  • Feminist Genealogies
  • New Materialism
  • Embodiment
  • Affect
  • Multidisciplinary Art Practice

Solo Exhibitions 

  • 2024 Hours of Stars, Passage, Sydney.
  • 2021 The Bells + Andromeda and the Milky Way, 812B George Street, Sydney
  • 2021 Coalescence, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.
  • 2021 Flint, Courtesy of the Artist, Sydney.
  • 2020 Approaching Zero, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney.
  • 2019 An Immeasurable Distance, The Lock-Up, Newcastle.
  • 2018 between stars, between stones, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney.
  • 2016 Dark Matter, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney.
  • 2015 Iota, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne.
  • 2015 Infinity, Courtesy of the Artist, Sydney.
  • 2013 Draw, Courtesy of the Artist, Sydney.
  • 2008 Emma Fielden, Studio 2017, Sydney.
  • 2007 Emma Fielden, Metalab, Sydney.

Performances

  • 2024 Hours of Stars, Passage, Sydney.
  • 2023 States of Matter, Blacktown Arts Centre for ‘The Unseen’.
  • 2022 Just a Second, The Lock-Up, Newcastle.
  • 2021 The Bells, 812B George St, Sydney.
  • 2021 Andromeda and The Milky Way, 812B George St, Sydney.
  • 2020 Dialogue, Parramatta Artists’ Studios Rydalmere.
  • 2019 Andromeda and The Milky Way, Parramatta Artists’ Studios Rydalmere.
  • 2019 We are two molecules floating together in space and our distance is infinite… then the sound of birds, The Lock-Up, Newcastle.
  • 2018 States of Matter, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney.
  • 2018 States of Matter, Art Omi, New York.
  • 2018 Cleave, Art Omi, New York.
  • 2018 We are two molecules floating together in space and our distance is infinite… then the sound of birds, Art Omi, New York.

Selected group exhibitions

2024

  • Infinite: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
  • Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery.

2023

  • The Unseen, Blacktown Arts Centre.
  • Care Structures, M16 Artspace, Canberra.
  • M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, M16 Artspace, Canberra.
  • Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, University of New South Wales.

2022

  • National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
  • Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery.
  • Attending, Latrobe Regional Gallery.
  • Radical Slowness, The Lock-Up.
  • Third Story, Funaki Gallery, Melbourne
  • Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
  • Liminal, Dominik Mersch Gallery.
  • 15 Years of DMG, Dominik Mersch Gallery.
  • Clicking and Collecting, Dominik Mersch Gallery.
  • Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, Jam Factory, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.

2021

  • On Earth, QUT Art Museum.
  • A Graceful Exit, Dominik Mersch Gallery.
  • Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, Cairns Art Gallery, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Australian Design Centre, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.

2020

  • Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie.
  • Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Artisan Queensland.

2019

  • To Hand and To Hold: The Daadler Collection of Contemporary Jewellery, Art Gallery of South Australia.
  • Rock Paper Scissors, Delmar Gallery, Sydney.
  • Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
  • Decade+ (Art Omi), Dominik Mersch Gallery.
  • The Fall, Dominik Mersch Gallery.

2018

  • Condo Mexico City, Patricia Conde Galeria, Mexico.
  • Summer Group Show, Dominik Mersch Gallery.
  • Aurora Australia, Galerie Noel Guyomarsc’h Montreal, Canada.

2017

  • NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney.
  • Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council.
  • Paramor Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
  • 10 - Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Dominik Mersch Gallery.
  • PAS17.2, Parramatta Artists Studios.

2016

  • Parramatta Artists Studios Ideas Platform exhibition, Artspace.
  • Drawing Conversations, National Art School.
  • The Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.
  • Blacktown City Art Prize, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney.
  • Phenomena, Parramatta Artists Studios / Parramatta Lanes.
  • Parramatta Artists’ Studios at The King’s School 37th Annual Art Show.

2015

  • Sydney Contemporary, Dominik Mersch Gallery, 2015.
  • Drawn To Form: The Matter in Hand, Blacktown Arts Centre.
  • National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Art Gallery.