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Artist Talk: Kay Abude 

Kay Adube, (DON'T) BE AN ARTIST, Install image, 2021. Photo: Christian Capurro.
Kay Adube, (DON'T) BE AN ARTIST, Install image, 2021. Photo: Christian Capurro.

Artist Talk
Saturday 11 December 2021, 4:30am

Gertrude Glasshouse

44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood

Saturday 11 December, 3:30pm-5pm

Gertrude presented a performance by Kay Abude, followed by a conversation between the artist and Artistic Director Mark Feary.

Kay Abude’s project (DON’T) BE AN ARTIST continued her ongoing interrogation into the labour and financial precarity of being an artist. Her practice frequently utilises labour-intensive techniques of screen printing and textile construction, as well as photography, sculpture and performance to create garments and installations that reflect upon the value of artists’ output broadly, while bringing into question concerns of remuneration. Her works, often adorned with texts that function as provocations, bring issues of artistic production to the fore with respect to the importance ascribed to arts and culture, while the production and financial resources provided by artists are given romanticised overtures of being beyond financial rewards. To be an artist incurs costs, and (DON’T) BE AN ARTIST reflects on these issues, while also requiring resourcing to bring it to fruition.

Associated exhibition

(DON'T) BE AN ARTIST

Kay Abude

Gertrude Glasshouse
26 November - 18 December 2021

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Wurundjeri Country
21-31 High Street
Preston South VIC
Melbourne, Australia

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Gertrude Glasshouse

Wurundjeri Country
44 Glasshouse Road
Collingwood VIC
Melbourne, Australia

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