Artist
Jacinta Maude
Based in Naarm (Melbourne)
I am a Melbourne/Naarm-based artist working across sculpture, installation and painting. While my practice moves fluidly between materials and forms, it is grounded in an ongoing investigation of selfhood and the experience of navigating liminal states. My work explores how identity is shaped through place, memory and the persistence of small, tender acts.
My recent series The Dance is an extension of my previous series Mothers Milk, both trace the psychological weight of quiet labour - the unseen yet deeply felt acts of care that sustain daily life. Through these bodies of work, I examine the tension between intimate domestic responsibility and its broader societal devaluation. Deeply rooted in materiality and the politics of the home, I seek meaning in what has been discarded, honouring the histories, emotions and embodied knowledge embedded within overlooked objects.
The ceramic and found-object forms sit in a kind of restrained defiance. Their irregular, tactile surfaces resist the polish of minimalism, instead evoking the slow, repetitive rhythms of care — gestures that are rarely neat or celebrated, yet remain relentless and essential. Drawing from the cadence of domestic life and intergenerational connection, my practice centres the quiet gestures, materials and labours that shape everyday existence.