Exhibition Openings: Lilah Benetti and Annabelle McEwen

Annabelle McEwen

Annabelle McEwen (She/They) is a multidisciplinary artist practising on unceded Gadigal Land with a Masters of Fine Art. McEwen was awarded the Summer Fellowship at The State Library of NSW in 2025, the Waverley Artist Studio Residency 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 (2024), The Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre (2025, 2024, 2023) among many others.

Their work has featured in many exhibitions, recently including solo exhibition The Smartest Horse in the World at Ethan Frome, Dead Ringer at Tiles Lewisham, Sydney Contemporary with The National Art School and DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange at KMITL Thailand.

Their work has been acquired by The National Art School, The City of Sydney Art Collection, RMIT Printmaking Collection, Curtin Uni Printmaking Collection among others.

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Lilah Benetti

Lilah Benetti (they/them) works at the intersection of contemporary art and cinema. Rooted in research as relation, their practice explores global Black memory, displacement and visibility through layered, sensory forms.

Experimenting across image, installation and sound, Benetti approaches still and moving image as fluid and porous, dissolving the boundaries between mediums. Much of their work unfolds through Black and Blur, a living anarchive that attends to the everyday, the spiritual and the speculative. This ongoing project foregrounds refusal, multiplicity and collective memory, while engaging with the mutable yet deeply entangled intersections of people and place as a way to imagine proximate futures.

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