2024 Program
Clouds and Symphonies
Clouds and Symphonies is an exhibition of artworks created by artist Vic McEwan during multiple residencies in Falls Creek between 2018-2024. Through photography, video, sound and interactive installation, this exhibition honours local residents by exploring the complex relationship between people and their surrounding environment. It explores how understanding our connection to a particular place, might prepare us to face the complex challenges that lie ahead.
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Friday 16 – Sunday 18 February 2023
Falls Creek, VIC
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CASE Incubator Studio Launch
The Cad Factory is launching the CASE (Contemporary Art Socially Engaged) Incubator Studio! This hub for the exploration of socially engaged art practices will create new work, provide artist opportunities, and resources to the sector. Join us, and the CASE Incubator alumni artists to celebrate.
Wednesday 21 February
Art After Hours, Art Gallery of NSW
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UK Tour
Following the launch of the CASE Incubator Studio, we will be sharing our socially engaged art practices to audiences in England and Scotland through a series of film screenings, conversations, and lectures.
Monday 26 February
Goldsmiths, University of London
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Tuesday 27 February
Bath Spa University
'More than a Fish Kill' documentary and discussion
Monday 4 March – Friday 8 March
Tate Liverpool Organisational Exchange
Thursday 7 March
Manchester Metropolitan University
Attending to the Other: An artistic enquiry into patient expectations and experiences of care at the Sydney Facial Nerve Clinic
Scene Shift Residency
Brand X (Sydney) and the Cad Factory (Sandigo) are committed to a rural and urban flow of artistic exchange and learning. Over the next twelve months we will run residencies between our two locations. Through an open call we will select a regional artist to undertake a residency at the City of Sydney Creative Studios, and a metropolitan artist to undertake a residency at the Cad Factory Studio in Sandigo.
EOIs Open: 1 March
EOIs Close: 31 March at midnight
Artists Notified: 19 April
Residency 1 Dates: 8 – 22 July
Residency 2 Dates: 2 – 16 December
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Griffith Base Hospital Artwork Commissions
Located on the lands of the Wiradjuri People, the NSW Government's $250 million new Griffith Base Hospital is a facility that will gradually open over 2024 and be fully operational by mid-2025. Acting as Creative Producer, the Cad Factory will work with NSW Health Infrastructure, Murrumbidgee Local Health District, artists Carolyn Williams, Carla Gottgens, Greg Carosi, Elijah Ingram, the Aunty Jeans group and Griffith Local Aboriginal Land Council to deliver five new artworks within the hospital over 2024.
Greg Carosi and Elijah Ingram Residency 1
Consultation with multicultural community
8-11 February
Greg Carosi and Elijah Ingram Residency 2
Consultation with Aboriginal community
11-12 April
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Carla Gottgens Residency 1
Marion Catholic College and Western Riverina Community School
Monday 1 to 3 July 2024
Joyce SpencerTextile Awards Round 4
Applications for Round 4 of the Joyce Spencer Textile Awards for regionally-based textile artists will open in May. In 2024 we are offering three prizes; $4000 fellowship for mid-career artists; $1500 highly commended; $500 for emerging artists.
EOIs Open: 1 May
EOIs Close: 2 June at midnight
Artists Notified: 14 June
For projects delivered between July 2024 and December 2026
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Introduction to Socially Engaged Practice
Join the Cad Factory and CASE Incubator alumni to explore the basics of socially engaged practice.
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Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July, 10am - 4pm
CASE Incubator Studio, Rosebery NSW
$50, eight places available
More Than A Fish Kill Documentary Screenings
'More than a Fish Kill' is an inspiring short-form documentary exploring how artists, fisheries managers and First Nations custodians came together in the aftermath of devastating fish kills along the Barka (Darling River). The documentary will be screened in several locations over the coming months.
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Palace Central Cinema
Thursday 4 July, 5:30pm - 7pm
Palace Central Cinema, Level 3/28 Broadway, Chippendale
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Screening and Q&A Panel at the 11th Australian Stream Management Conference and Awards Gala
Monday 12th August, 6pm
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​Screening at the University of the Sunshine Coast​
Wednesday 4 September, 5pm-8pm
Lecture Theatre 7
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Screening and Panel Discussion at Australian National University
Monday 16 September 2024, 12:30pm – 2pm
2.04 Innovations Lecture Theatre, Level 2 Anthony Low Building, use Eggleston Road entry
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Arts and Health Mini Mentorships
A partnership between the Cad Factory’s CASE Incubator Studio and AHNNA
The Arts and Health mini-mentorships program is a new initiative delivered by multiple partners to support the development of arts and health practices. It brings together the Cad Factory and the Arts Health Network NSW/ACT (AHNNA) with St Vincent’s Hospital, UNSW and Sydney Children’s Hospital (Randwick) to offer a week-long mini mentorship program. These mentorships provide a unique opportunity for immersion into diverse arts and health practices and contexts in order to develop practice, expand networks, and provide learning opportunities.
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