Sydney Contemporary: Robert Fielding.: Booth D07, Carriageworks

N.Smith Gallery is honoured to present a solo presentation of Robert Fielding at Sydney Contemporary.

A senior Yankunytjatjara artist from Mimili Community on the APY Lands, Robert’s multidisciplinary practice draws on memory, Country, community, and the ongoing impacts of colonialism. Working across painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper, his practice brings together ancestral knowledge and contemporary experience.

The presentation reflects the breadth of Robert’s practice, bringing together paintings, sculpture, and works on paper.

Robert was recently awarded the 2026 Hadley’s Art Prize and presented a major solo exhibition at Samstag Museum of Art, with his work set to feature in major museum exhibitions later this year.

Visit Robert’s presentation with N.Smith Gallery at Sydney Contemporary until 6 September.

Working across photography, sculpture, printmaking, painting, installation, and cultural materials, Robert Fielding’s multidisciplinary practice interrogates memory, colonial legacy, and the endurance of cultural knowledge systems. Of Yankunytjatjara, Western Arrernte, Afghan, and Pakistani descent, and a son of the Stolen Generations, Fielding transforms salvaged and found materials through processes of sandblasting, engraving, and printing, revealing stories held within Country, objects, and collective memory.

Fielding’s practice is grounded in Tjukurpa, cultural protocol, and ngapartji-ngapartji, or reciprocity. His concept of the ‘living archive’ challenges conventional institutional approaches to collecting and preserving knowledge, proposing instead a form of storykeeping that remains connected and accountable to community. As a senior artist and cultural leader at Mimili Maku Arts, he also mentors emerging artists through the Mimili Wati men’s movement.

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