Dr Vic McEwan is an internationally recognised artist and researcher. He is the Artistic Director of multi-disciplinary arts organisation The Cad Factory and the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Creative Arts, Ecologies and Communities at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (USyd). He is also the co-founder of The CASE Incubator studio, a national hub for the development of socially engaged arts practice.  Vic’s work explores the capacity for art to engage with social and environmental contexts through sound, music, photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. His work has been presented in many site-specific locations nationally and internationally, as well as in more traditional venues such as the Tate Liverpool, National Museum of Australia and numerous regional galleries across the country.  

Vic has established a strong reputation for leading large-scale, complex, and interdisciplinary socially engaged artistic projects that involve partnerships with diverse stakeholders. He was the first artist accepted into the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney to undertake a practice-led PhD, which was awarded both the Faculty Outstanding Thesis Award, and the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distinctive Australian Work Prize in 2023. He was previously awarded the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distinctive Australian Work Prize in 2018 for his work The Harmonic Oscillator which undertook a creative exploration of the impacts of sound within hospitals. 

Vic is a board member of Music NSW, the state’s peak body for Music, and a member of the Arts and Health Network NSW/ACT (AHNNA) and from 2023-24 he was a Regional Arts Australia National Fellow. Vic has presented over 100 keynote, invited and peer reviewed presentations, exploring a diversity of topics related to socially and environmentally engaged artistic practices.