Performances

2025 From Breath, Gosford Regional Gallery, The Big Draw
2024 From Breath, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Infinite: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial
2024 Hours of Stars, Passage, Sydney
2023 States of Matter, with Lizzie Thomson, Blacktown Arts Centre for ‘The Unseen’
2022 Just a Second, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2021 The Bells, with Lizzie Thomson, 812B George St, Sydney
2021 ‍Andromeda and The Milky Way, with Lizzie Thomson, 812B George St, Sydney
2020 Dialogue, with Tarik Ahlip, Parramatta Artists’ Studios Rydalmere, commissioned by Parramatta Artists’ Studios
2019 Andromeda and The Milky Way, with Lizzie Thomson, Parramatta Artists’ Studios Rydalmere
‍ ‍commissioned by Parramatta Artists’ Studios
2019 ‍We are two molecules floating together in space and our distance is infinite… then the sound of birds,
performed by Alysha Fewster and Skip Willcox, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2018 We are two molecules floating together in space and our distance is infinite… then the sound of birds, with
Hanae Utamura, Art Omi, New York
2018 Cleave, Art Omi, New York
2018 ‍States of Matter, Art Omi, New York
2018 ‍States of Matter, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

Awards

AWARDED
2023-24 Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, University of New South Wales
2018 Art Omi Australia Committee Fellowship for Art Omi Artists Residency, New York USA
2017 Paramor Prize Mayoral Award, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
2014 National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Art Gallery
2009 Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Award, 10th Ernest Leviny Commemorative Silver Exhibition,
Buda Historic Home and Garden, Australia
2006 Jewellery and Object Design Award, TAFE NSW Sydney Institute Design Centre Enmore

HIGHLY COMMENDED
2025 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
2006 Youth@Craft.Design, Craft Australia

FINALIST
2026 The 69th Blake Prize, Liverpool Powerhouse.
2024 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2023 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, M16 Artspace, Canberra
2023 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, University of New South Wales
2022 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2022 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery
2022 Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2020 Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie
2017 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Create NSW and Artspace Sydney
2017 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
2016 The Blake Prize. Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
2016 Blacktown City Art Prize
2012 National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Art Gallery

Grants

2023 Arts Projects Grant, Creative Australia
2021 Play the City Grant, Create NSW
2019 Arts Projects Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2016 NSW Artists Grant, National Associated of Visual Arts (NAVA)
2013 New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts

Residencies

2019–2021 Parramatta Artists’ Studios Rydalmere
2019 The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2018 Art Omi Artists Residency, New York, USA
2018 Parramatta Artists’ Studios
2018 The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2017    Parramatta Artists’ Studios
2016     Parramatta Artists’ Studios
2016 House of Wonder art + science residency, with Astronomer Dr Andrew O'Brien (Western Sydney University), Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest
2007 Jewellery & Object Design Award residency, TAFE NSW Sydney Institute Design Centre Enmore

Selected Projects + Commissions

2021 In conversation with Anne Ryan for The Sky Swallowed a Stone, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
2021 In conversation with Melissa Bianca Amore for The Bells + Andromeda and The Milky Way, Sydney
2020 Dialogue, commissioned by Parramatta Artists’ Studios for NEXT
2019 Andromeda and the Milky Way, commissioned by Parramatta Artists’ Studios for Parramatta Lanes festival
2019 Asad Raza workshop, Kaldor Public Art Projects, The Clothing Store, Carriageworks, Sydney
2019 In conversation with Julie Ewington for An Immeasurable Distance, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2019 An Infinite Universe, panel discussion at Western Sydney University Penrith Observatory
2018 In Conversation: From the Studio to The Gallery, panel discussion with Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Liam Benson and Tom Polo, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2017 Art + Science CONNECT (Sydney Science Festival), MAAS Powerhouse Museum, artist talk
2016 House of Wonder panel discussion. Gravity Geeks Art, Science and Ideas Symposium, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. A joint venture by Penrith Regional Gallery, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) and Western Sydney University
2013 Australia Council Visual Arts Award and Medal, commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts for award recipient Fiona Foley and medal recipient Julie Ewington

Teaching Appointments

2023–current Casual Academic, University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney, Australia
2019 Youth Mentoring program with Western Sydney HSC art students. An initiative of Peacock Gallery, Parramatta Artists Studios, and ICE Parramatta
1991– 1997         Flute teacher

Selected Press + Publications

2025 UNSW Galleries, The Sky Swallowed a Stone, exhibition catalogue
2024 Julie Ewington, Stone Breath Metamorphosis
2021 Yumna Kassab, The Griffith Review, Art Lives Here, Infinity Plus One
2021 Alanna Irwin, In and Out of Tune
2021‍ ‍Carol Jenkins, Emma Fielden The Bells, The Review Board
2020‍ ‍Julie Ewington, Emma Fielden: Dialogue
2020‍ ‍Carol Jenkins, Ebb, Flow and Raven Gloss: Looking at Emma Fielden’s Approaching Zero
2020‍ ‍Eloise Hastings, Emma Fielden Approaching Zero, The Review Board, 2020
2019‍ ‍Julie Ewington, Emma Fielden: The Whole and Parts of Infinity
2019‍ ‍Tom Compangoni, Infinity (short documentary)
2019‍ ‍Erin McFadyn, Postcard from Newcastle, Art and Australia, October 2019
2019‍ ‍Damon Cronshaw, Is the Universe Infinite?, Newcastle Herald, August 2019
2018‍ ‍Nadia Odlum, The only certainty is transformation: Emma Fielden’s Changing States, The Art Life
2017‍ ‍Dr Barbara Doran, Art is exercise for the brain - Art + Neurobiology, Art Guide Australia, February 2017
2016‍ ‍Chloé Wolifson, Invisible Forces, exhibition review, ArtAsiaPacific, July 2016

Collections

Art Gallery of South Australia
La Trobe Regional Gallery
Griffith Regional Art Gallery
Private collections in Australia and abroad