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

When

30 May – 17 August 2025

Where

Maurice Chick Family and MacLeod-Miller Adamshurst Gallery

Price

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.

Haunting, Vic McEwan and George Main and 'Swan Hoppers Legacy', Julie Montgarrett, Vic McEwan and Clytie Smith, 2015
for On Common Ground, Narrandera Commons.
Photo: James T Farley

As part of nginha: you are here, a season of programming celebrating artists from our region, MAMA presents a new exhibition celebrating 20 years of activity by of one of the region’s most important artist-run-initiatives, the Cad Factory. The history of the organisation is honoured with a project that draws on their extensive archive, as well as commissions new works by associated artists that look to the future of the Cad Factory. This project will be accompanied by a series of talks, performances, and workshops focused on the nginha Weekend to be held in June.

The Cad Factory is an organisation based in Sandigo, NSW. Led by Artistic Director, Vic McEwan and Creative Producer, Sarah McEwan, the Cad Factory has worked for over 20 years with regional, metropolitan, and international organisations to promote socially engaged artistic practice.

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Artist Talk: The Cad Factory

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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
Image that contains two headshots in circles and The CAD factory logo. Bottom left is a headshot of a woman wearing glasses with shoulder length blonde hair. To the right and slightly higher is a headshot of a man. He has reading glasses on the top of his head. The ad factory is written with the word the conatained within a rectangle, the letters C,A and D contained within individual circles and the word factory contained with another rectangle.

The Cad Factory: Walks

Sunday 8 June 2025 10.00am - 11.00am 12.00pm - 1.00pm 2.00pm - 3.00pm, Workshops, Free. Please register your interest.
metal sculpture made from steel sheet. The steel is oxidated. It has the rough shape of a horse's head and is perforated with ovals and swirling cut outs to for the abstract image of the horses head.

Opening: new nginha exhibitions (June)

Saturday 7 June 2025 4.30pm - 6.00pm, Openings, Free