Kay Abude
Kay Abude is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice engages many different forms of making, including sculpture, large-scale installation, performance, photography and silk-screen printing. Abude is fascinated with the nature of labour, with its economic, repetitive and somatic properties, as well as how work connects and separates us by taking so much of our time that it comes to define our lives.
Kay Abude is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice engages many different forms of making, including sculpture, large-scale installation, performance, photography and silk-screen printing. Abude is fascinated with the nature of labour, with its economic, repetitive and somatic properties, as well as how work connects and separates us by taking so much of our time that it comes to define our lives.
Abude’s recent exhibitions include NEVER WORK/STOP WORKING, NGV Triennial EXTRA, NGV International, Melbourne, 2021; Stimulus Package, FUSE Festival, City of Darebin, Melbourne, 2021; WORK WORTH DOING, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Victoria, 2020-21; WFH, STATION Gallery, Sydney, 2020; LOVE THY LABOUR, Megalo International Print Prize, Canberra, 2019; and POWER, National Anthem, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, 2019. Abude was also a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 2019-2022.
