Vic McEwan

Vic McEwan

Haunting 

2 - 16 August 2025

Exhibition opening with the Artist

to be launched by

Wendy Martin 

Director

Creative Futures Fund

Creative Australia

Saturday 2 August 2025

2.30-4.30PM

Artists in Conversation

Vic McEwan

with

Simon Chan AM

16 August 2025

2.30 – 4.30 pm

Vic McEwan
Vic McEwan is the artistic director of multi-disciplinary arts organisation The Cad Factory, and the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Creative Arts, Ecologies and Communities at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (USyd). He is also the co-founder of The CASE Incubator studio, a national hub for the development of socially engaged arts practice.  Vic’s work explores the capacity for art to engage with social and environmental contexts through sound, music, photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. His work has been shared in many site-specific locations nationally and internationally, as well as in more traditional venues such as the Tate Liverpool, National Museum of Australia and numerous regional galleries across the country. 
Vic has established a strong reputation for leading large-scale, complex, and interdisciplinary socially engaged artistic projects that involve partnerships with diverse stakeholders. He was the first artist accepted into the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney to undertake a practice-led PhD, which was awarded both the Faculty Outstanding Thesis Award, and the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distinctive Australian Work Prize in 2023. He was previously awarded the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distinctive Australian Work Prize in 2018 for his work The Harmonic Oscillator which undertook a creative exploration of the impacts of sound within hospitals.
Vic is a board member of Music NSW, the state’s peak body for Music, and a member of the Arts and Health Network NSW/ACT (AHNNA) and from 2023-24 he was a recipient of the Regional Arts Australia National Fellowship. Vic has presented over 120 keynote, invited and peer reviewed presentations about various aspects of socially engaged arts practice.
 
Haunting 
Haunting is a photographic exhibition by artist Vic McEwan, developed during his year-long residency at the National Museum Australia. These works were created by photographing objects from the museum’s collection that document the history of human impact in inland Australia. To open new ways of engaging with these histories, McEwan devised a unique process where he projected the photographs into nighttime fog over the Murrumbidgee River and then rephotographed the resulting images. The fog, with its ever changing and ephemeral nature, introduced a layer of collaboration with the environment, transforming atmospheric conditions into active participants in the creative process. Through these interactions, McEwan demonstrates how the performative act of projecting images onto atmospheric conditions allows the fundamental elements of digital imagery, such as pixels, to blend with weather elements, such as water droplets, producing images that blur the boundaries between digital media and the environment. This approach moves beyond simply overlaying images onto a surface, instead creating a canvas of atmospheric potential through which environmental conditions become active participants in meaning making. The resulting images are evocative, painterly, and, as the exhibition title suggests, haunting. Following a three-year national tour, which culminated in a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, selected works from Haunting are presented here. The work was developed with the guidance of former National Museum of Australia Curator Dr George Main.

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