Emma Bugg is a contemporary jeweller and artist based in southern Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her work blends traditional silversmithing with emerging technologies to explore memory, place, and speculative futures. With a background in sculpture and a deep curiosity about material storytelling, she creates wearable objects that often incorporate surprising elements—concrete, fast food, NFC tags, even AI. Each piece becomes a vessel for connection, often embedding narratives of family, ecology, or unseen systems.

Emma is a co-founder of State of Flux Workshop, a Hobart-based studio supporting contemporary jewellery and object makers. Her practice is rooted in community and curiosity, often involving collaborative processes and storytelling-led workshops. She was the inaugural winner of the Bridge Arts Prize with Bridges and Bloodlines, and has exhibited work at MONA and the Science Gallery Melbourne.

Emma is currently developing The MycoVerse, a fungi-powered cultural vision based in Queenstown, and continues to explore how jewellery can act as both an intimate archive and a public interface. Her practice asks: what stories do we carry, and how do we share them?