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Paula Gabriela do Prado

Born 1979, Montevideo, Uruguay. Arrived Australia 1986. 
Lives and works in Sydney

EDUCATION

2010-2012 Master of Fine Arts by Research candidate, COFA (current)

2005-2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Class I) Textiles, COFA

Currently lectures School of Design Studies (Textiles) COFA Sydney

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Where Yah From?, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2009 It’s a (bloody) good time to be Black,  Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2008 Textiles, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Postcards and Letters Beyond Text Conference Exhibition, Brighton, UK 

Play, Textile Arts Centre Brooklyn, New York 

IV International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Mexico 

Selected for the 2011 Tamworth Textile Triennial 

                Cross Art Projects, Adiafa/Diyafa: Gifts of Exchange

2010 330 Group show, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

Live Red Art Awards, Marrickville Community Centre, Sydney

2009  COFA Annual, Graduate show, Sydney

Landscapes: A Journey Home in textiles, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

Kudos Award, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

Half Way House, COFAspace, Sydney

Linden Postcard Show, Melbourne

Starving Artist, Carriageworks, Sydney

2008  Re-birth, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

SmARTarts Space,  Pine St Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney

2007  COFA Annual Graduate show, Sydney

Dissonance, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

AWARDS/PRIZES

2010-2012 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) scholarship recipient 

2009 TAFTA (The Australian Forum for Textile Arts Ltd) Workshop Award

2009 Kudos Award, Shortlisted, Kudos Gallery

PUBLICATIONS

Textile Fibre Forum, No.97, February 2010 issue, p.24

Where Yah From ? 2009  Self-published 20 page, soft cover artist book in colour ISBN: [978-0-646-52078-0]

Carsley, G (ed), Half Way House, Vol II 2009 : An Honours reader at the halfway mark, compiled by Gary Carsley and Andrew Frost, p.9-10, ISBN: [978-0-9805218-2-5]

Thread Alert, Art & Events, Vogue Living, March/April 2009, p.65-66

Tharunka, UNSW Student Voice, Issue 04, Edition 54, p. 19

Xodó (2008), Visual narrative based on the concept of the Mulatta. Self published, 20 page soft cover artist book in colour. 

Face to Face (2007-2008) , Collection of self-portraits.  Self-published 40 page, soft cover artist book in colour.

CONFERENCES/PAPERS

Writing from the margin: Letters of Resistance presented at the Picture This: Postcards and Letters Beyond text conference at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. 25-26 March 2011. www.postcards-letters.org.uk

COLLECTIONS

Private collections Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Tasmania.