Artist
Jacinta Maude
Based in Naarm (Melbourne)
Jacinta Maude is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works on Wurrundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. Her creative practice explores domestic spaces, hoarding, and collecting. She finds significance in the things we discard, the histories they hold, and what they can tell us about our domestic life-worlds and habits of consumption. Her work is embedded in her daily experiences and activities, tapping into a history of feminist practice.
Her practice is intrinsically tied to her interest in what is discarded or lost down the back of a kitchen drawer. Sometimes these items are charged with significance and suffused with memories - signifiers of absence - and other times they are mundane, ready-made, or detritus. There is an embedded history in a thing and she does not want to lose the previous meaning of the object, but enhance it and give it a second life in whatever form that takes.
Jacinta was recently awarded the Fiona Myer Art Award and her work is held in private collections including the Fiona Myer Collection. She holds a Masters in Contemporary Art and an Advanced Diploma in Visual Art and has exhibited her work in numerous local galleries as well as internationally at NDS-FUSE, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.