About / Bio / CV

Aimee Fairman is a Melbourne-based jeweller and visual artist (sculpture + immersive installation).

Fairman's jewellery practice spans silver/goldsmithing + precious stones, sculptural resin pieces and bioluminescent research.

Drawing on the thematic and technical drivers of her sculptural installation practice, Fairman combines ideas of landscape theory, Romanticism, phenomenology and science fiction with geological and botanical forms to produce wearable pieces imbued with symbolism.

Her previous visual arts practice employed multi-sensory immersive installation, kinetic sculpture and photography to engage with ideas of psycho-geographical landscapes. Through both ephemeral site-specific research projects and gallery-based installation, Fairman’s practice considers ideas of the simulacra to explore the shifts in territory between the virtual and real, actual and pictorial, organic and artifice.

BIO

Fairman completed her Masters of Fine Art at RMIT in 2007. In 2008, Fairman was awarded the first inaugural RMIT/AIR artist-in-residence Krems Residency at the Künstmeile Krems, Austria. In 2009 a further residency was awarded by Kultur Service Steiermark at the Rondo Künstlerateliers, Graz, Austria.

Fairman has exhibited actively both nationally and internationally, obtained critical reviews in The Age, online forums and interviews in NGV Magazine (2017) and Arts Hub (2012). From 2011-2014 she gained representation with Melbourne commerical gallery Beam Contemporary. Fairman has undertaken commissioned installation projects for the Melbourne Fringe Festival (2011) and Gertrude Street Projection Festival (2012). She has been a finalist in numerous fine art scholarships, sculpture awards and art prizes. In 2012 Fairman returned to RMIT to undertake a Certificate of Art In Public Space. In 2023 Fairman undertook a Cert II in Jewellery Engineering at Melbourne Polytechnic. 

Her Geo-Alchemy jewellery collections were showcased at the National Gallery of Victoria Design Store (2016 - 2019), and Gallery of Modern Art store, Brisbane (2019). 

Fairman was commissioned by NGV design store in 2017 to produce the Auroral Collar, a sizeable wearable art piece (since sold to private US collectors, 2018). 

Fairman was additionally commissioned by NGV design store in 2019 to make the Night's Atoll photoluminescent hoop earrings for Melbourne Design Week, 2020.