Duke Albada

Duke Albada is a highly qualified creative producer and art therapist. Besides facilitating group and individual art therapy, Duke produces socially engaged art projects and photographic social documentaries.

Duke’s art practice is focused on researching relationships within communities, surveying social and cultural identity in relation to place. By collaborating with the community and the resulting artworks Duke aspires to stimulate dialogue and increase understanding within our society.

Duke Albada has exhibited extensively in Australia, Europe and the USA. She showcased her refuse fashion dregs2Diva in New York, had a six-channel video-work at Byron Bay Airport, was a finalist at the Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, exhibited several times at Sculpture by the Sea and showed two collaborative artworks at Thessaloniki Biennale.

Duke’s tertiary qualifications are a Master of Art Therapy (AThR) from La Trobe university, a Master of Fine Arts from Monash University, Melbourne, and a Bachelor Degree in Architectural Design from Rietveld Art Academy, Amsterdam. Her undergraduate studies were at the Academy of Photography & Video, and Fashion Design at TAFE, NL.