Zaachariaha Fielding
Zaachariaha Fielding is a multi-disciplinary artist originally from the Mimili Community in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, currently working out of the APY Collective on Kaurna land/Adelaide. Having established himself as a critically acclaimed musician, the frontman for duo Electric Fields, Fielding is compelled to create art in whichever form is available to him.
About his work, Fielding shares: “I was raised on desert country in the eastern Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, and come from a long line of multi-disciplinary artists. I am compelled to make work that honours the visual language of my ancient culture. The iconography reflects the way I live my culture in the present, as a constant feature of my world, and visualises how I interact with the beings that populate the Tjukurpa I’ve inherited.”
Fielding’s work has been recognised in major art awards such as the Ramsay Art Prize at Art Gallery of South Australia and the NATSIAAs Awards at Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory. He was recently awarded as the winner of the Wynne Art Prize, The Art Gallery of New South Wales.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 (Upcoming) Z Munu A Titutjara, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide; presented as part of Tarnanthi Festival, Art Gallery of South Australia
2022 Araltjarinyi – Unlace, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Kuwari – Now, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2020 Gold and Silver Linings, APY Gallery, Adelaide
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Ramsay Art Prize 2023, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2022 Queer – Stories from the NGV collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2022 Ngura Pulka, Bangkok Art Biennale – CHAOS : CALM, APY Art Centre Collective, Bangkok
AWARDS
2023 Winner, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Finalist, Ramsay Art Prize 2023, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2021 Finalist, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin
Finalist, Ramsay Art Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
PUBLICATIONS
Blake Lawrence, A melody, a song: Zaachariaha Fielding, Vault Magazine, Issue 37, Feb – Apr 2022
Jen Nurik, Tomorrow's Heroes: Zaachariaha Fielding, The New York Times Style Magazine, p. 82. 2021
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Macquarie Group Collection
National Gallery of Victoria
Sony Corporation
Private collections