Emma Fielden’s background in classical music and jewellery with a focus on hand engraving and mark making, has instilled in her a fixation with minute details and repetitive actions. Her practice, which encompasses drawing, sculpture and installation, constitutes minimal monochromatic works that explore ideas of the infinite and the infinitesimal – as both metaphysical and mathematical concepts, from the largest astronomical structures and the smallest constituents of matter. They are informed by philosophical concerns, science and art history; balanced by an intuitive and meditative working process.
Emma Fielden, Orb, 2017, hand-crushed ferrite magnets, iron oxide pigment, rare earth magnets, linen thread. Photograph: Document Photography. Courtesy the artist and Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Dominik Mersch Gallery
1 to 24 November, 2018
Sydney
