Creators Network: Clarifying Your Message

Across two focused sessions, participants will explore strategies to refine and clarify the language they use to describe their work, ensuring their professional materials reflect their artistic voice and intentions. Participants will develop clear and engaging artist statements and biographies, and reflect on how to strengthen their online portfolios. This workshop is facilitated by Melbourne-based multidiscplinary artist, Kay Abude.

CREATORS NETWORK: CLARIFYING YOUR MESSAGE

Date: Monday 2nd February 2026

Time: 10am to 2pm

Location: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Price: Adults $30.00, Students $20.00

Included: Morning tea with a light snack

Part 1 will focus on writing and editing artist statements and biographies. Through guided exercises, discussion, and examples, participants will learn how to craft clear, engaging texts that communicate their ideas with confidence and authenticity. Artists are encouraged to bring existing artist statements and biographies for review and feedback in a supportive group environment.

Part 2 will focus on reviewing and improving digital portfolios. Artists will reflect on how their work is represented online - considering layout, photography of projects and artworks, and image selection. Participants will identify ways to strengthen the coherence and professionalism of their digital portfolios. By the end of the workshop, artists will leave with a refined artist statement and biography, practical feedback on their online portfolios, and a clearer understanding of how to present themselves and their work to audiences.

ARTIST BIO

Kay Abude is a multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne whose expanded sculptural practice spans 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 BE CREATIVE REMAIN RESILIENT, Mural Commission, The Showroom, London, UK, 2023–24, and Smoko Room, 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, 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.

For more information contact: artsandculture@mornpen.vic.gov.au