Simon MacEwan is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice operates in a constant state of exploration and expansion. With works spanning from drawing to animation, to sculpture and jewellery, the artist has described his practice as “a tree, where new areas of skill are explored, but the main trunk is always the art-making.” Meticulously crafted and elegantly designed, his works often combine mechanical and post-apocalyptic city scapes with absurd imagery to activate the imagination and create new potentialities.

MacEwan’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at various Melbourne galleries including Anna Papas Gallery (2015, 2012, 2011); c3 contemporary art space (2010, 2009); Bus Gallery (2008) and Seventh Gallery (2005, 2004, 2003). He has also shown in group exhibitions at Melbourne’s Utopian Slumps, Kick Gallery (2008), NEXT WAVE Festival (2006, 2004); and Sydney’s UTS Gallery (2005). In 2013, MacEwan was a finalist for the John Fries Memorial Prize in Sydney and the Deakin Small Sculpture Prize in Melbourne. He was also a finalist for the 2011 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Melbourne and the 2003 George Baldessin Award Exhibition, Melbourne.

MacEwan is represented in the Artbank collection, Sydney; the Banyule City Council Art Collection, Melbourne; Ipswich Art Gallery, Brisbane and the Monash University Museum, Melbourne; alongside private collections worldwide.

• Project11: paradise…a hell of a place
• Simon MacEwan – The World’s Fair
• Korean International Art Fair
• Simon MacEwan – all that is solid melts into air
• Melbourne Art Fair 2014
• Simon MacEwan – The Floating World
• Goodbye 2015

EDUCATION

2002    BFA (Sculpture), RMIT, Melbourne
2001    Diploma of Visual Art, RMIT, Melbourne
1997   BA, University of Melbourne, Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015
The Floating World, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne

2012
all that is solid melts into air, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne

2011
The World’s Fair, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne

2010
You’re doing it wrong, c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne

2009
It’s not the end of the world, c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne

2008
Batmania, Bus Gallery, Melbourne

2005
built to fail, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

2004
lost in the woods, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

2003
architecture, as it is dreamt, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

2002
in-vitro, First Site, RMIT, Melbourne

2001
Bridge, Tivoli Artspace, RMIT, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
Art Athina, Anna Pappas Gallery, Athens

2014
Melbourne Art Fair, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne

2013
Farewell 2013, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Others, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
John Fries Memorial Prize, Sydney
Deakin Small Sculpture Prize, Melbourne

2011
Duality: Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Banyule City Council, VIC
project11: paradise… a hell of a place, Anna Papas Gallery, Melbourne

2008
Grow Wild, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
While you were sleeping, Kick Gallery, Melbourne

2006
Lost Garden Found, NEXT WAVE, Melbourne

2005
Where the Wild Things Are, UTS Gallery, Sydney

2004
FORT, NEXT WAVE, Melbourne

2003
George Baldessin Award Exhibition, VCA Gallery, Melbourne

2002
Sculpture Graduate Exhibition, RMIT, Melbourne

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2013    Hatched Residency, Bayule City Council, Melbourne
2011    Highly Commended, Duality: Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Banyule City Council, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS

Artbank, Sydney
Banyule City Council, Melbourne