Shoalhaven Health & Arts invites you to attend a presentation by internationally renowned Researcher and Artist Vic McEwan, who will share findings from his fascinating research that has made unique contributions across both health and the arts. FREE / SPACES LIMITED / BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL/ BOOK HERE
Vic’s contemporary art practice works with sound, video, photography, installation and performance, with a particular interest in site-specific work that creates new dynamics by working with diverse partners and exploring difficult themes within the lived experience of communities and places. He aims to use his work to contribute to and enrich broader conversations about the active role that the arts sector can play in reimagining a better world.
Vic was the recipient of the inaugural Create NSW Regional Fellowship, which enabled him to undertake a three-year process at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, UK to deliver an artist investigation into the negative impacts of sound in our hospital spaces. This project won the 2018 Council for the Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australian Prize for Distinctive Work.
He is continuing his work in Australia as the first ever artist to be accepted into a PhD in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney to undertake creative practice led research, working with the Sydney Facial Nerve Clinic at The Chris O’Brien Lifehouse.
His Arts Organisation The Cad Factory has recently been commissioned to undertake the creative consulting processes for the upcoming Griffith Hospital Redevelopment on behalf of NSW Health Infrastructure.
Vic is an invited participant in the Arts, Creativity and Mental Wellbeing Policy Development Program, aimed at developing policy proposals for all government portfolio areas regarding the role of the arts in wellbeing across the nation.
He is a Board Member of MusicNSW and an Arts and Health Network NSW/ACT Committee Member.
His current exhibition 'Face to Face - The New Normal' is currently on show at Wagga Art Gallery.
See more about Vic and his work here.
Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear from one of Australia's most engaging speakers who inhabits the frontline of international Arts in Health research.
COMPLIMENTARY LIGHT SNACKS & REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED AFTERWARDS