An international partnership (UK/Australia) over 3 years, this project places a contemporary artist within a functioning hospital ward. Relocating the traditional working space of the studio into the living space of the health care setting. Amongst the fear of intensive care, the deafening sonic bombardment of the MRI scanner and the daily drudgery of dialysis.

This project investigates the negative effects that noise is having in our hospitals, whilst engaging with the lived experience of patients, families and staff to generate outcomes that enable a better unde...

Shadow Places is a collaboration with place, history and consequence.  

Featuring 9 sites of projections onto round hay bales, lighting and textiles installations in a field near Narrandera, this project was open to the public for four nights between October 26-29th 2017.

Shadow Places explores Val Plumwood’s ideas regarding ethical understandings of the multiplicity of place. Project Webpage

This arts and health project was a collaboration between artists Mayu Kanamori and Vic McEwan, exploring Mayu’s diagnosis and treatment for Breast Cancer, positioning herself as an artist rather than a patient.   

During this process Mayu and Vic kept a blog and undertook a two week residency at Sydney University in May 2017 to explore the diverse material they have created during this ongoing medical process.

Read project blog.

Artlands was the 2016 Regional Arts conference held in Dubbo, NSW. Vic was invited to collaborate as one of the lead artists on the opening show of the festival. This image sees Vic atop a 40m log pivot irrigator, playing it like a giant cello with a bow and a series of contact mics. Festival Webpage

Sit back under the stars, forget the world for a while and be back in time for dinner!

Join us beneath a vast night sky for SPARK, a cinematic celebration of Lightning Ridge already enjoyed by thousands of people. SPARK is about what makes Lightning Ridge so special. A celebration of the natural, cultural and technological heritage of Lightning Ridge opal fields, their opal and people. Webpage 

Outback Theatre for Young People invited Vic to work as a collaborating artist, using video sound and installation to help tell this locally generated story at Bishops Lodge in Hay NSW. Webpage

Portrait of a Shimmering Self Just Waiting to be Touched was a solo exhibition by Vic McEwan at the Griffith Regional Arts Gallery. The exhibition featured 6 interactive, video and sound works that explored identity. April 2016

Grace Before Meals started in 2009 when songwriter Vic McEwan entered a studio with the desire to make an album with a revolving line up, capturing songs with the help of whoever happened to be around at the time.  Not so much a permanent band but a revolving experience. Listen

Vic was the 2015 artist in residence at the National Museum of Australia, creating a number of large scale artistic outcomes including The P.S Enterprise performance, Specimen and Haunting.  Read more about the residency and watch videos here.

Vic was the Artistic Director of On Common Ground, a 3 day festival of textiles, performance, video projection, installation, story telling, music and more. That took place “along the Murrumbidgee” in the Narrandera common from 16 - 18 October 2015. 

The Murrumbidgee river has a long history as a contested site. Colonisation, the development of agriculture, species extinction and reduction, continuing environmental changes and resource management initiatives such as the Murray Darling Basin Plan, make this location and its surrounds a place of consternation w...

Water Well was a sound installation committed for the opening of MAMA in Albury. Recorded in an old well that was re-discovered during the excavation for the gallery renovations, this installation traces time and places through sound. Read More

Late one night in 2015 at The National Museum of Australia, Vic created the installation Tunnel of Anatomy. It invited audiences members to engage with, and become, a Museum specimen. More info