Kay Abude is a multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her expanded sculptural practice encompasses 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.
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Recent commissions include BE CREATIVE REMAIN RESILIENT, Mural Commission, The Showroom, London, UK, 2023–24, and Smoko Room, 2023 Paul Selzer Prize, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Southbank, 2023.
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Abude has been the recipient of numerous grants, including Creative Australia Project Grants in 2025 and 2023, Hume Arts Activity Grants in 2025 and 2022, a City of Melbourne Creative Laneways Project Grant in 2021, and a Play King Foundation Grant at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 2020. Abude was a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, from 2019 to 2022.
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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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