Annabelle McEwen

Annabelle McEwen is a Sydney-based artist working on Gadigal Land. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art Majoring in Printmaking from The National Art School and is currently completing a Master of Fine Art at the same renowned Sydney institution. McEwen has participated in many exhibitions, most recently including Freaks of Nature at Ambush Gallery as part of art festival Bein' Narly, Multiply, an online show curated by Bea Buckland-Willis and Emergent 2021 at Artsite Galleries. Annabelle was awarded The Ellen O'Shaughnessy Printmaking Award in 2019. Her work is a part of USQ Printmaking Collection, RMIT Printmaking Collection, Curtin Uni Printmaking Collection and The SRC’s Zine Nook at UNSW A&D Paddington Library.

  1. Picture-in-Picture, 2021, image transfer on FRC, 26.5 x 48 cm. $300

  2. Fill the Mold, 2021, image transfer on MDF, 11.5 x 10.5 cm. $100

  3. Picture-in-Picture #2, 2021, image transfer on wood, 30 x 45 cm. $250

  4. Cat, Chair, Calathea and Carrier in Chippendale , 2021, image transfer onto MDF, 22.5 x 22.5 cm. NFS

  5. No One, 2021, image transfer on MDF, 19 x 24c m. $150

  6. Nana’s House, 2021, image transfer on wood, 15 x 10 cm. $100

  7. World Map, 2021, etched copper, 32.5 x 15 cm. NFS

  8. Reflected Marks, 2021, copper plate etchings on Hahnemühle, 52 x 70 cm. $600

  9. Regents Park, 2021, linocut on BFK Rives mounted on FRC, 34 x 27 cm. $400

  10. Tree Plate, 2021, etched copper, ~ 14.5 x 20.5 cm. NFS

  11. Organ, 2021, image transfer on MDF, 35 x 12 cm. NFS

  12. Every Place, 2022, copper plate etching and photo transfers on Hahnemühle, 33 x 45 cm.

In an age of reproduction, McEwen attempts to forge autonomy and meaning within both digital and physical spaces. She explores the maelstrom of the screen-saturated world by isolating images, reproducing them with elements of distortion, and considering the subjective impact of contemporary experience. Annabelle uses a range of mediums to investigate the cycle of reproduction including etching, lino cuts, photo transfers, digital manipulation and photography. Using the primary medium of culture, printmaking, she engages with histories of dissemination, disruption and discourse. The use of the copy also considers contemporary capitalist methods of commercial persuasion -- from printed marketing to algorithmically curated cyber realities. The work encourages the viewer to be critical about the cycle of reproduction and how it may warp and manipulate identity, culture and futures; the objects poetically engage with the culture of imagery. 

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