The Sky Swallowed a Stone

A stone is struck. A mark is made. A surface buckles as another takes shape. 'The Sky Swallowed a Stone' traces Emma Fielden's evolving body of work with silver and stone, where painting, drawing and performance converge through acts of impact, connection and transformation. Working across disciplines, Fielden engages elemental materials to explore the memory of matter and how gestures leave enduring traces. A new series of paintings suspends crushed stone and silverpoint in oil glaze, with each surface becoming a site of slow doing and undoing. The exhibition reaches back to Dialogue 2020, a durational performance in which a limestone boulder is rhythmically struck with hammers. Stone becomes a material that bridges time and distance, embodying geological and human histories. The presentation includes the boulder and its rubble, video documentation, and large photographs capturing wall drawings made during the performance. Sound moves through these works like an undertow: percussive, breath-bound, and reverberant, lingering in the rhythm of impact and the quiet weight of transformation.