Donate

Select Amount
Donate

Subscribe

Keep up to date.
Drag

Artist Talk: The Cad Factory

When

Saturday 7 June 2025

2.00pm - 3.00pm

Where

Murray Art Museum Albury

Price

Free. Please register

Register
Two photographic portraits. On the left a man is seated on a stool. He is wearing a in a dark pin stripe suit his arms resting on his legs and his hands a clasped together. Behind him is a black wall with a portion of stainglass window visable. On the right is woman sitting on a bench. She is sitting with crossed legs to her side and holding a microphone. In the background four brightly coloured artworks and partially visible.

In this performative artist talk, Sarah and Vic McEwan journey through The Cad Factory's evolution. From its early beginnings in the Sydney underground warehouse scene through its move to Regional NSW, Sarah and Vic discuss their 20 years of socially engaged art practice.

About the artists

Sarah McEwan has been working and volunteering at the Cad Factory since 2006. Sarah is an artist, musician, artist‑curator and Creative Producer who lives and works between Sandigo, within the Wiradjuri Nation, and in Sydney, within the Eora Nation. She likes to time‑travel through the past in order to learn from what has happened before and to understand, navigate and create the world she wants and needs in the present and the future. In the spirit of ethically engaged practices, she values community, collaboration, gentleness and embracing differences.

Vic McEwan is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, video, installation and performance with a particular interest in site-specific work. He is interested in creating new dynamics by working with diverse partners and exploring difficult themes within lived experience. Vic aims to use his work to contribute to and enrich broader conversations about the role that the arts sector can play within our communities.

Related

nginha Weekend: Full Program

Saturday 7 – Sunday 8 June 2025, Workshops, Free
A photograph of a riverside at night. The left half is illuminated with warm light with a stencil of a face is projected onto gum trees on the opposite side of the river bank. The right hand side features a row of pieces of fabric hung on a rope that extends from one side of the river to the other, bathed in a blue tinted light.

The Cad Factory: The View from Everywhere - 20 Years and Beyond

30 May – 17 August 2025, Exhibitions, Free
Composite image with a background of four drawn portraits hung on a wall. Composited on top of this are two circles containing headshots. One circle placed towards the upper left has a headshot of someone with blond hair, shaved on the sides. They are wearing lipstick. the other circle placed towards the bottom right contains headshots of two people. The person on the left has dark hair, is wearing glasses has a face mask pulled down and is making a gesture with two fingers of each hand pointing at each other, held infront of them at should height. Net to them is another person with should length blonde hair and glasses. Everyone is smiling.

The Cad Factory: Portraits

Saturday 7 June 2025 12.00pm - 1.30pm Sunday 8 June 2025 11.30am - 1.30pm, Talks, Free, drop-in