Robert Fielding

Celebrating Robert Fielding’s extraordinary Archibald finalist work, Tjintir-Tjintir 🖤 Painted here at Mimili Maku Arts, the work honours Adrian Dodd: cultural leader, ceremonial dancer and teacher, and custodian of Tjintir-Tjintir — the Willy Wagtail Tjukurpa. In the studio, Adrian sat with Robert as the work came into being, listening to the inma that moves through the painting. Shared here alongside the finished portrait are moments of Adrian performing Tjintir-Tjintir, and standing proudly with his family beside the work. Tjintir-Tjintir carries community, ceremony, Country, memory and continuity, the generations before him who carried Tjintir-Tjintir, and the generations still coming through. We are deeply proud of Robert and Adrian, and of the community standing behind this work. Culture is alive, strong and continuing. 👏🏾

Coming away from the @artgalleryofnsw today, standing alongside this year’s Archibald and Wynne finalists, I’m feeling deeply grateful. To share space with so many powerful artists, stories, and communities is an honour in itself. Thank you to the curators, staff, installers, volunteers, fellow artists, families, and supporters who make these exhibitions possible. None of us stand here alone. Portraiture and landscape have given me the opportunity to carry community, memory, and cultural truth into these spaces, and I’m proud to stand alongside works by Harriette Bryant and Betty Campbell from @mimili_maku_arts in this year’s exhibition. Congratulations to all finalists across the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. Whatever tomorrow brings, the work already speaks for itself. 🖤👏🏾

Congratulations to @robertfielding_ , selected as a finalist in the 2026 @hadleysartprize for his work “Landscape” 👏🏾 “This is being landscape now. Not frozen in the past. Still shifting, still alive.” - Robert Fielding In his painting, stacked cars hold journeys, family, ceremony and time interwoven with Country. Marked SACRED and Nganampa (ours), the work speaks to landscape not only as something seen, but something lived, remembered, carried and shared. Congratulations to all the finalists! We can’t wait to see the exhibition at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart, showing 1–23 August 2026. 🌟

Congratulations to Robert Fielding, finalist in the @archibaldprize 2026 @artgalleryofnsw with Tjintir-Tjintir, a portrait of Adrian Dodd. “This portrait is about visibility. Culture is alive, it’s strong, and it continues to stand: Tjintir-Tjintir.” Robert’s portrait honours Adrian Dodd as a ceremonial dancer, teacher and cultural leader carrying Tjintir-Tjintir Tjukurpa for future generations. Here is Adrian proudly sending his portrait off with his daughters Roma, Karla, Melissa, and granddaughter Adriana. Photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales

Congratulations to @robertfielding_ , finalist in the Wynne Prize 2026 at @artgalleryofnsw with Heritage Impact Assessment. “What is recognised as landscape — and who decides what is worth keeping? Country holds what has been disregarded. Country remembers — and culture continues, on its own terms.” This work speaks to memory, Country and accountability, to cultural places that endure, even when institutional systems fail to recognise them. Photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales

Gifts from the APY Lands. We are very excited to have @robertfielding_ new work at @sculpture.company to be developed with @canberraglassworks . @mimili_maku_arts , you guys rock.

Ngurkantananma (Recognise), 2021 Visiting this old friend at @nationalgalleryaus . Five years on, we’re still here. Ngurkantananma. Recognise. Nganampa Manta miil-miilpa. Our land is sacred. Nganampa Tjukurpa miil-miilpa. Our culture is sacred. 📷 @heyandy.studio

This year I spent three weeks in residence at @klugeruhe , supported by the @uva , with a focus on First Nation exchange, learning and leadership. The generosity of @nicicumpston and the entire Kluge-Ruhe team created a space of care, respect and deep conversation, and I am very grateful for that. The residency offered time to connect with First Nations leaders, artists and institutions, to share knowledge, listen, and think together about responsibility, wellbeing and the future of our communities and country. Thank you to the @_aaausa and @creative.australia for supporting this residency, and to everyone at Kluge-Ruhe who welcomed me so openly. Tjukurpa. Handle it. Into 2026 we go. 👋🏾

It’s been a big year — sharing some highlights over these coming days as I reflect on it. 👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 On Country: Photography from Australia Les Rencontres d’Arles, Église Sainte-Anne, France I presented my series Manta miil-miilpa as part of On Country: Photography from Australia, the first major Australian photography exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles. The work was shown alongside artists exploring Country as lived, relational and ongoing. During opening week, I participated in public programs, panel discussions and guided tours, and spent time in the exhibition speaking with audiences, curators and institutions from Europe, the UK and Australia. Thank you to Create SA for supporting this project, and to PHOTO Australia for their care, collaboration and commitment throughout.

An extraordinary year for @robertfielding_ ! In 2025, Robert was the only artist represented across all three major AGNSW prizes — the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman — followed by the acquisition of his Wynne Prize work into the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection. From there, a major exhibition with @amesyavuz , international travel to France (supported by Create SA) to present work at Les Rencontres d’Arles, and a residency in the US at Kluge-Ruhe. Alongside this, Robert continued his work on Country — co-hosting a printmaking workshop that led to the Troopie Press, and mentoring the men’s group into art making through our on-Country foundry with Fundere and Sculpture Co. A huge thank you to Robert, such a vital part of our art centre, always leading and sharing from a place of generosity and ngapartji-ngapartji. Big things ahead in 2026. Stay tuned.

Three strong days back in the studio — just what I needed. Big thanks to Jeremy and Tom at @infiniterepeatsworldwide for generously opening your space to my wild, dusty, desert practice. Always grateful for the trust, the time, and the chance to keep experimenting. It’s been a moment to breathe, reflect, and take in all that I’ve learned over the past three weeks — the people, the stories, the fire that keeps burning. But most special of all — having my daughter Partimah in the studio with me. Malatja-malatja — for the generations. I reckon the love of printmaking might’ve just been passed on. Shout out to my brother Xolile “X” Madinda from @theblackpowerstation , South Africa — walking strong and speaking truth. And to my fellow countrymen John West Tjuputtula and Marlene Nampitjinpa from @papunyatulaartists — an honour to share space and time with you all. 🕊️🕊️🙏🏾🙏🏾 #RobertFielding #BackInTheStudio #InfiniteRepeats #PartimahAndDad #MalatjaMalatja #GenerationalKnowledge #PrintmakingLove #FromMimiliToTheWorld #TjukurpaStrong #BlackPowerStation #PapunyaTulaArtists #DesertPractice #ArtOnCountry #NgapartjiNgapartji #CreativeExchange #AnanguArtist

What a powerful time it has been here on Turtle Island. It’s been an honour to share stories, challenges, and deep strength with the First Peoples of this land. Thank you to everyone at the Monacan Tribal Museum at Bear Mountain for welcoming us onto your beautiful Country and holding space for your stories. A heartfelt thank you to my dear friend Gerald McMaster for travelling down to spend two powerful days with me. The conversations, the laughs, the revelations - these are what keep the fires of resilience ablaze. Always grateful, always learning. Massive thanks to all the team at Kluge-Ruhe for holding us, walking beside us, and opening this space for connection. #NgapartjiNgapartji #TurtleIsland #FirstNationsSolidarity #MonacanNation #BearMountain #Chickahominy #ATALM #KlugeRuhe #GeraldMcMaster #MimiliToTheWorld #AnanguVoices #ArtOnCountry #GlobalIndigenous #DesertToMountains #RobertFielding #MantaMiilmiilpa