Kay Abude is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. She has an expanded sculptural practice working in large-scale installation, photography, performance, video and silk screen printing. Abude’s work is about work itself: the value of it, the effort, the inequality and insecurity of it, especially for artists. Her recent commissions include BE CREATIVE REMAIN RESILIENT, Mural Commission, The Showroom, London, United Kingdom, 2023-24; Smoko Room, Paul Selzer Prize, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Southbank, 2023; (DON’T) BE AN ARTIST, Flash Forward – Creative Laneways Project, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2021; NEVER WORK/ STOP WORKING, NGV Triennial EXTRA, NGV International, Melbourne, 2021; and WORK WORTH DOING, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Victoria, 2020-21. Abude was a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne from 2019 to 2022.
Sarah crowEST, Richard Grigg, Katie Lee, Andrew McQualter, Sanne Mestrom, Stephen Ralph and Jake Walker
Curated by Kay Abude
Assembly: Contemporary Ceramics
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, The Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
9 - 31 May, 2014
Ceramics is one of the oldest forms of art in human history, yet many artistic movements of the 20th and 21st centuries have embraced the craft based origins. Assembly: Contemporary Ceramics brings together a strand of seven local artists working in sculpture, painting, drawing, installation and performance who integrate traditional ceramic processes and aesthetics into the production of contemporary work.
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