Sarah McEwan: Unrequited Love (The Great Magpesis)

Unrequited Love (The Great Magpesis) was an exhibition that had personified ‘the creative process’ and ‘the art world’ into a being-like entity called ‘Magpesis’, pronounced mag-pie-sis. This name was made up through combining the Ancient Greek words mania, obsessive, mad love; agape, spiritual and unconditional love; and poiesis, the act of bringing something into the world that didn’t exist before. This exhibition explored Sarah McEwan's relationship to being an artist, where it often felt like the Magpesis will never love her back!

About the Artist

Sarah McEwan is an artist, artist-curator, musician and the Creative Producer of the Cad Factory, an artist led organisation collaborating ethically with people and place to create a local, national and international program of experimental work. Sarah lives between an old schoolhouse in rural New South Wales in Sandigo on Wiradjuri Country and Sydney on Eora Country. Sarah is passionate about ‘ontoethics’ – how to make the only world we have, different from the past.