"...Bugg's jewellery embodies an expression of solidity, groundedness and finesse"
Professor Leanne Dowse
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Food for Thought
"For my money, it's definitely art, and very good art". -David Walsh, Namedropping MONA
A Moment to Reflect: THYLACINE locket
i n s t a g r a m
Big Mac Brooch, Edition #2, 2020
Locket containing Thylacine hair and DNA
Photo Credit: Matthew Stanton
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'Bridges and Bloodlines' necklace selected as overall winner of The Bridge Arts Prize, 2025.
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About:
Contemporary jeweller, artist, and futurist based in lutruwita/Tasmania, reimagining connection through storytelling objects, speculative futures, and tech-infused craft. Co-founder of the State of Flux Workshop in Hobart, and inaugural winner of The Bridge Art Prize (2025), with work held in the MONA collection and exhibited across Australia and internationally.
Known for pushing the boundaries of jewellery design, her practice merges traditional craftsmanship with emerging technologies, embedding NFC tags, QR codes, and AI to create objects that hold memory, message, and meaning. Her private commissions include a QR-activated brooch for David Walsh, and her work often engages with community, philosophical, ecological, and deeply personal themes.
Recent accolades include recipient of the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania (2023) and finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2024). Inaugral winner of The Bridge Arts Prize (2025) She is regularly invited to speak and contribute to public discourse around art, ethics, and the future of design, appearing on ABC Radio, speaking at the Women in Design colloquium, and serving on the advisory committee for the thylacine de-extinction initiative led by Professor Andrew Pask. and Michelle Dracoulis.
Currently developing The MycoVerse - a vision for a fungi-powered creative ecosystem based in a decommissioned church on Tasmania’s wild West Coast. Part museum, part speculative VR experience, part regenerative lab, the project brings together science, art, and community to reimagine how we adapt to ecological and social change. It reflects a long-term commitment to sustainable futures, place-based storytelling, and transformational collaboration.
Continually pushing the boundaries of jewellery, Emma creates artefacts for future generations that document what it means to be human in this era.
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