BIO
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. 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 2023, among many others.
Their work has featured in many exhibitions, recently including solo exhibition Virtual Gaze at photo access, HARD/SOFT at Megalo Print Studio, Dead Ringer at Tiles Lewisham 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 at Schmick Contemporary. 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, Gadigal Land, in 2024. They were mentioned in the Sydney Morning Herald as a “printmaker… for whom big things are predicted”. 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. They were interviewed for the Graduate Student Profile in The National Art School’s 2022 Annual Report.
Their work has been acquired by The National Art School, The City of Sydney Art Collection, USQ Printmaking Collection, RMIT Printmaking Collection, Curtin Uni Printmaking Collection and Southern Cross University Printmaking Collection among others.
e: amcewen97@gmail.com