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Projects
Menindee Fish Passage 2025
Fishheart technology is being trialled in Menindee as part of a multi-faceted approach to finding effective ways to prevent future mass fish-deaths in the Barka-Darling River. In 2025 artists and community members came together to paint the tubes.
River Country Tour 2024-25
A collection of events over 2024 and 2025 exploring what’s special about our unique river and wetland communities. Come share your story.
Arts and Health Mini Mentorships 2024
The Arts and Health Mini Mentorships program brings together The Cad Factory with the Arts Health Network NSW/ACT (AHNNA), St Vincent’s Hospital, UNSW and Sydney Children’s Hospital (Randwick) to offer a week-long mini-mentorship program to support the development of arts and health practices.
ArtSpeak 2024
In partnership with Riverina Community College, this professional development program supported artists working in the Art Factory supported studio to co-devise, collaborate and deliver a new exhibition
More Than A Fish Kill 2023-24
More than a Fish Kill is an inspiring short-form documentary created in partnership with the National Museum of Australia and Otis Filley Studios, exploring how artists, fisheries managers and First Nations custodians came together in the aftermath of devastating fish kills along the Barka (Darling River).
Lucky People 2023-25
From 2023-25 we have been working with the Australian Opal Centre and the local community in Lightning Ridge to develop several installations for the new, world-class building that will be the home of the new Australian Opal Centre.
Old is New, New is Old 2023
Artists Diane Busuttil, Nick Wishart, Sarah Penicka-Smith, Sunita Bala and Vic McEwan created new artworks inspired by objects in the Narrandera Parkside Cottage Museum made in collaboration with Narrandera artists and community members.
Shoulder to Shoulder 2023
A Pinnaroo Project and Cad Factory Collaboration full of art, storytelling, projections and performance.
Pangala: Returning Home 2023
In 2023 art, science and ancient knowledges will come together once again through storytelling, projections and performance to explore how people from different cultural backgrounds can come together over serious national issues with reconciliation being at the forefront of their actions.
Griffith Base Hospital Redevelopment 2022-24
The Cad Factory and Murrumbidgee Local Health District invites artists to submit an Expression of Interest to be considered to undertake artwork for identified locations within the Griffith Base Hospital.
Scene Shift Residency 2022-25
The Cad Factory (Narrandera) and Brand X (Sydney) are committed to a rural and urban flow of artistic exchange and learning. This residency program gives a regional artist studio space in the Sydney CBD and gives a Sydney artist studio space in rural NSW.
Face to Face: The New Normal 2022
Face to Face: The New Normal was developed by Vic McEwan during three years of creative research exploring medical science and contemporary arts practice, while working with patients and medical staff at the Sydney Facial Nerve Clinic.
Political Women 2021 - 22
Political Women brings together artists from diverse cultural, generational, personal and artistic perspectives to illustrate and celebrate the complexity of contemporary feminist discourse and the art made within it.
CASE Incubator 2021 - 23
The CASE Incubator is a professional development, knowledge sharing and mentorship program aimed at socially engaged artists who are seeking to develop their practice, engage with their peers, create networking opportunities with diverse partners, and contribute back to the sector.
Recording Sessions 2021
Western Riverina Arts and the Cad Factory partnered in 2021 to offer this opportunity for local musicians to record a new piece of original music in the Cad Factory’s professional recording studio.
Wirramarri: Long Way From Home 2021
In 2021 we joined the Narrandera community at the Marrambidya/Murrumbidgee River for a family friendly event that explored art, science and ancient knowledges through storytelling, projections and cultural dance.
Ten Days on the Island 2021
Vic McEwan presented work and participated in several public programs and panels at Ten Days on the Island in Burnie, Tasmania, in March 2021, including the Creative Life in the City of Makers panel, The Social Imagination panel, Alder Hey installation at Willow Court Barracks, and Haunting exhibition and Artist Floor Talk at Burnie Regional Art Gallery.
From Menindee 2020
In 2020 the Cad Factory worked with Narrandera Fisheries (Department of Primary Industries), a group of amazing Wiradjuri boys from the Clontarf Academy in Narrandera, and local Barkindji Elders in Menindee to care for and release fish raised in response to the 2019 fish kill event, in an important cultural exchange.
Tension[s] 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial
This exhibition acknowledges that the world has long been a place under various tension(s), both harmonious and dissonant. In order to bear witness to, contribute to and respond to these tensions, the triennial focused on the future of people and place through textile as a material and human experience as materiality.
Bidgee Bunyips 2020
Over 2020, Coleambally artist Kerri Weymouth interned with us as part of her Masters of Therapeutic Arts Practice at MIECAT in Melbourne. Kerri worked with a number of artists to imagine and bring to life the ancient Wiradjuri story of the dangerous bunyip who lurks in various locations along the Murrumbidgee River.
Life On The Sandhills 2020
Over 2020, Coleambally artist Kerri Weymouth interned with us as part of her Masters of Therapeutic Arts Practice at MIECAT in Melbourne. Kerri worked with local Wiradjuri artists in Narrandera to showcase an important piece of Narrandera's heritage.
Inclusive Fashion Sale 2020
The Cad Factory partnered with fashion label Aestheletic (Singapore) and disability provider Boundless Possibilities (Philippines) to produce an inclusive fashion line for Christmas 2020. Narrandera artist Layla Bacayo's artworks were featured on hoodies, jumpers, letterman jackets, phone cases, laptop cases and tote bags.
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy 2020
For Artstate Wagga Wagga, Vic McEwan collaborated with Aunty Lorriane Tye, Sue Clancy, Clive Parkinson, Musical Director Marie-Cecile Henderson with performers Kat Van Der Wijngaart, Kalia Forde, Dianne Pentland, Fiona Lai, William McKenzie, Geoff Parker, Maged Khalil and Paul Nolte to present this performative lecture on grief and suicide.
Something to Say 2020
In a time of climatic unravelling, a global pandemic and widening inequalities, there is a need for ‘unmaking’ the present world from the errors of our past. The artists and artworks in Something to Say consider positive and meaningful ways to reimagine life on the only planet we have; where all life is considered and valued. Presented at Artstate Wagga, 2020.
Sigh 2020
Presented amongst flames and molten steel, Sigh is a collaboration between Blacksmith, John Wood and musician Vic McEwan. Forged steel, flames, fire, clarinet, pump organs, contact microphones and more. An intimate performance in a working blacksmith’s studio where you will hear the screams & sighs of this enduring paradoxical medium. Presented at Artstate Wagga.
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