Annabelle McEwen (She/They) is an artist and educator practising on unceded Gadigal Land and Wangal Land (Sydney, Australia) with a Masters of Fine Art from The National Art School. McEwen was awarded the Waverley Artist Studio Residency in 2025/2026, the Summer Fellowship at The State Library of NSW in 2025, and The Ellen O’Shaughnessy Printmaking Award in 2019. They were a finalist in The National Photographic Portrait Prize at The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra in 2024, The Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre in 2025, 2024 and 2023 and The Burwood Art Prize in 2026 and 2023, among many others.
Their work has featured in many exhibitions, recently including solo exhibition Virtual Gaze at photo access, Myth Makers at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, HARD/SOFT at Megalo Print Studio, and solo exhibition The Smartest Horse in the World at Ethan Frome.
McEwen is a co-director of Puzzle Gallery. McEwen was the 2024 Chair of the Board and co-director of Schmick Contemporary. McEwen was recently published in Art + Australia with their paper The Body as Data. McEwen was selected to deliver their paper at The International Printmaking Conference, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław, Poland in 2026 as well as The Material Image Conference at The National Art School, in 2024. McEwen was a contributor to Soft Stir’s Issue 03: Stories of Collision. McEwen was published with their article Image Transfer and The Virtual Gaze in The Print Council of Australia’s IMPRINT Magazine.
Their work has been acquired by The National Art School and The City of Sydney Art Collection among many others.
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