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

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.

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.