Show and Tell Lab with Kay Abude

Next date: Saturday, 05 September 2026 | 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM

Image credit: Kay Abude, (DON’T) BE AN ARTIST semaphore performance (family), 2021, performance, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne, dimensions variable. Photo: Kay Abude.

Have you got work sitting on your studio floor? Half finished, overworked, or somewhere in between? Bring it in. 

Show-And-Tell Lab is an open-studio critique session where you show your work to other artists, talk through it, and get fresh eyes on it. It's a high-energy session! Fast, focused, and genuinely useful. No stiff critique panels - just a room full of artists thinking out loud together.  

Part critique, and part idea lab, learn how to speak about your work without overthinking it. See how other artists approach challenges, materials and ideas, and walk away with new directions for your work. 

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.  

Recent commissions include Radical Women: Wonthaggi Miners’ Women’s Auxiliary, Wonthaggi Public Art Commission, 2026, Union Theatre, Wonthaggi, Victoria, 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. 

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, and a City of Melbourne Creative Laneways Project Grant in 2021. Abude was a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, from 2019 to 2022. 

Event Details

• When: Saturday 5 September 2026
• Time: 10am to 4pm
• Where: Meeting Room 5, Maroondah Federation Estate, 32 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood, 3134
• Cost with lunch: Full $45 | Concession $35 | Hardship $20
• Cost without lunch: Full $35 | Concession $25 | Hardship $10

Tea and coffee provided.

Register here

Further information

This workshop is for emerging artists with a working folio or completed artworks that they would like feedback on. Please call Jo Harkin 0400 711 917 with any questions about this workshop. 

 

When

Location

Meeting Room 5, Maroondah Federation Estate, 32 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood, 3134, View map