Jude Muduioa
Maker Member
Ceramics
Jude Muduioa is a New Zealand born artist of Māori heritage. Based in Meanjin (Brisbane), Muduioa’s practice is driven by experimentation and curiosity, reflecting on identity as fluid, shaped by migration, memory, and the quiet strength of community. Her work emerges from in-between spaces, between people, where new forms of belonging take shape. Muduioa has exhibited extensively across Australia, Brisbane, Sydney, Townsville and Tasmania, internationally in the USA. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, the USA, New Zealand and Germany. Muduioa’s first solo show, was ‘Fragments that Hold’, at Artisan Qld, 2025. She was winner of the Emerging Artist Prize at the North Coast Ceramic Awards 2025 and finalist in the Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence 2025, Swell Small Sculpture Award 2025, North Queensland Ceramic Awards 2024, Georges Rives Art Prize 2023 and National Emerging Art Prize 2021.
"I work with clay as a living material, often recycling and formulating my own bodies so that each work is connected to previous works. My work is built through accumulation through hundreds of wheel-thrown components, each individually turned and considered, then brought together into a single form. This process reflects my understanding of community: many parts being held in relation to each other, creating strength and meaning as one work. Wood firing is central to my approach, where flame becomes a collaborator, marking the surface through ash, carbon and atmosphere. I work with these atmospheric firings allowing chance and transformation to shape the final outcome. My work is influenced by cycles of impermanence and renewal, sitting in a space between control and surrender, where material, process and environment remain in constant dialogue."
Online Resources:
Website: https://www.judemuduioa.com/
Instagram: @judemuduioa