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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Roof Project (Body as Mould)
Kay Abude
2006
Installation and performance
Suburban house roof, Melbourne
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Over a 6-month period Abude used her house roof as a site of exploration. The material residues from the physical processes conducted on top of the roof were re-mapped, re-worked and re-inscribed in the studio. Roof Project (Body as Mould) was a body of work Abude created while completing her 2nd year of her Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture and Spatial Practice) degree at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne in 2006.
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