PAULA DO PRADO
  • eguahé porá
  • exhibitions
    • quarai 2022
    • birth of sucuri 2022
    • a place where we can be together 2022
    • in the fibre of her being 2021
    • kuña/womxn 2021
    • pallay yuyay 2021
    • kalunga 2020
    • iyanla 2019
    • playdate 2018
    • lucky swag 2015
    • face to face 2014
    • odalisque 2014
    • sepiasiren 2012 *adult content*
    • mellorado 2012
    • adiafa/diyafa 2011
    • where yah from? 2010
    • rebirth 2008
    • I am...Black
  • zines + books
  • projects
    • everyday ceremony
    • Uruguay Indigenous Biennale 2023
    • design isolate 2020
    • meroogal 2020
    • heartstrings 2018
    • TOAF 2016 + 2017
  • interviews + talks
  • studio do prado
  • bio + cv
  • contact
  • eguahé porá
  • exhibitions
    • quarai 2022
    • birth of sucuri 2022
    • a place where we can be together 2022
    • in the fibre of her being 2021
    • kuña/womxn 2021
    • pallay yuyay 2021
    • kalunga 2020
    • iyanla 2019
    • playdate 2018
    • lucky swag 2015
    • face to face 2014
    • odalisque 2014
    • sepiasiren 2012 *adult content*
    • mellorado 2012
    • adiafa/diyafa 2011
    • where yah from? 2010
    • rebirth 2008
    • I am...Black
  • zines + books
  • projects
    • everyday ceremony
    • Uruguay Indigenous Biennale 2023
    • design isolate 2020
    • meroogal 2020
    • heartstrings 2018
    • TOAF 2016 + 2017
  • interviews + talks
  • studio do prado
  • bio + cv
  • contact

bio

Paula do Prado is a visual artist working with various forms of tejido/weaving. Her practice surfaces the intersections of her African Bantu-Kongo, Iberian and Charrúan ancestral heritage. Her art practice is indivisible from her cultural and spiritual practice, her family and community relationships and the nature spirits (wetlands, rivers, salt and sweet water) and ancestral tree kin she is called to work with led by Lajau (Ombú), Jacaranda and Kapok. 

She holds a BFA, First Class Honours (Textiles) and a MFA (Research) from the University of New South Wales Art & Design. Her work was recently included in the Bankstown Biennale 2022 “Sub Terrains” at Bankstown Art Centre and she has been selected to take part in the 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial 2023. She is currently a PhD candidate at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.

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Paula Gabriela do Prado (aka PDP)
Born 1979, lands of the Charrúa Nation, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Arrived Australia 1986. Lives and works on unceded Gadigal Country, Eora Nation

EDUCATION
2021-        PhD candidate, The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts
2012         Master of Fine Arts by Research, UNSW Art & Design
2009         Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours 1st Class), UNSW Art & Design
2005-7       Bachelor of Fine Arts, UNSW Art & Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021    Kuña/Womxn, Bankstown Arts Centre
2021    pallay yuyay: to gather, to remember, Verge Gallery
2020    Kalunga: Under the Sea with Tomas Marinangeli, Firstdraft Projects 
2019    Iyanla, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
2018    Playdate with Tomas Marinangeli, AIRspace Projects
2017    Bomba, AirSpace Projects
2014    Face to Face, Chasm Gallery
2014    Odalisque, Gallerysmith
2012    Mellorado, Gallerysmith
2010    Where Yah From?, Gallerysmith
2009    It’s a (bloody) good time to be Black,  Gallerysmith
2008    Textiles, Gallerysmith

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022     Fisher's Ghost Art Proze Finalist exhibition
2022     Studio Creep, Backspace Gallery/SCASS
2022     Sub-Terrains, Bankstown Biennale, Bankstown Arts Centre
2022     Unicorn Butterfly, Katrina Brennan x PDP, Cement Fondu
2022     In the fibre of her being, Fairfield Museum and Gallery
2021     Lost & Found, Ambush Gallery, Waterloo
​2021     Weaving Futures, The Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne
2020     The Space Within, Sabbia Gallery Redfern 
2019     Place Makers, Australian Tapestry Workshop
2019     Knitted, Woven, Sewn, Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Galleries
2019     Breaking Ground, Seed Gallery Aotearoa 
2019     Rijwick Textile Biennial, The Netherlands
2018     Blacktown City Art Prize Finalists Exhibition 
2018     Interwoven with Kylie Walsh, New Moon Yanada Lewisham
2018     Nothing is as valuable as you, Peacock Gallery Auburn
2018     Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Art Award, Australian Design Centre
2017     Self Made: artist zines and books, touring exhibition through State Library of Victoria
2016    The Charged Object, Gallery Lane Cove, North Sydney
2015     f generation: feminism, art, progressions, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2015    Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda
2015    Not Singing: Poetics of Protest, Cross Art Books, Sydney
2015    Labours of Love: Australian Quilts 1850 - 2015, Hazelhurst Regional Arts Gallery
2015    Mythology of my land, M Contemporary Gallery, Sydney
2014    Unveiled, Gallerysmith Project Space, Melbourne
2013    National Artists Self Portrait Prize, UQ Art Museum
2013    Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, finalist
2013    Knit Knot Weave, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
2012    City of Hobart Art Prize, Finalist exhibition, Hobart
2012    Feminage: The Logic of Feminist Collage, Cross Art Projects, Sydney 
2012    We Australians, MONow, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
2011    Adiafa/Diyafa: The Gifts of Exchange with Nicole Barakat at Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2011    Global Backyard,  Latrobe Regional Gallery
2011    Play, Textile Arts Centre Brooklyn, New York
2011    Art Object, IV International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Mexico    
2011    Tamworth Textile Triennial, national touring exhibition 2011-2013
2009    COFA Annual, Graduate show, Sydney
2009    Landscapes: A Journey Home in textiles, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2008    Rebirth, Gallerysmith, North Melbourne

GRANTS, AWARDS & PRIZES
2020      Australian Tapestry Workshop Artist in Residence (undertaken in 2022)
2019      Blacktown City Art Prize, finalist
2019      Fisher's Ghost Art Award, finalist
2019      Woollahra Artist in Residence Studio Program
2018      Blacktown City Art Prize, finalist
2018      Winner Skein Sisters Yarn Innovation Award as part of SSCC Textiles Awards
2018      Seed Stitch Collective Contemporary (SSCC) Textiles Award finalist
2018      Little Things Art Prize, finalist
2018      Woollahra Artist in Residence Studio Program
2011      College of Fine Art Travel Grant
2010      Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) scholarship recipient
2009      TAFTA (The Australian Forum for Textile Arts Ltd) Workshop Award 

SELECTED TEXTS
2021   Favour Economy, 
Sharing Alternative Value in the Arts, in Care Ethics and Art by Jacqueline Millner & Gretchen Coombs, Routledge. 
2021   Connectedness, Jo Holder, Cross Art Projects
2021   Contemporary Art & Feminism by Jaqueline Milner and Catriona Moore, Routledge

2019   Garland Magazine https://garlandmag.com/loop/paula-do-prado/
2019   Textiel Plus www.textielplus.nl/artikelen/textiel-biennale-rijswijk-thema-txp-textiel-plus-248/
2017   Imprint Magazine (cover image), Print Council of Australia, Spring 2017 Vol 52 No.3
2017   Art Edit Magazine "One's To Watch" feature Winter issue
2017   Embroidery Magazine, UK "Culture, Country, Cloth" by Janet de Boer, September-October 2017, pp.33-37
2017   Citrine Magazine Pound: Print + Sound issue 001 http://citrinestudios.tictail.com/product/pound-print-sound-issue-001
2016   AnOther Magazine, Three Radical Female Collage Artists You Need to Know by Daisy Woodward, 19 July 2016
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8849/three-radical-female-collage-artists-you-need-to-know
2016    Steadfast Arte, Artist interview with Chelsea Kozak http://www.steadfastarte.com/pauladoprado/
2015    Jamini International Arts Magazine, Australian Art Textiles: Passion, Collaboration and Cloth by Liz Williamson 
2015    Double Mask, Book Machine/Artspace publication
2014    Artist Profile Magazine, Profile by Anna Madeleine, Issue 27, 2014, pp94-99
2013    Nikos Papastergiadis, Why Multiculturalism Makes People So Angry and Sad,  in Future Leaders, p.18
2012    Mellorado 2012, Self-published catalogue ISBN:978-0-9872775-0-3 
2012    The Age, Your Weekend: In the Galleries, Mellorado exhibition review by Dan Rule, Saturday Arts section 30 March            
2011    Australian Art Collector, Issue 58, Oct-Dec 2011, p.201
2011    The Paperworks, Australian Book Arts Journal, Issue 6, September 2011
2009    Where Yah From? 2009,  Self-published catalogue ISBN: 978-0-646-52078-0

CONFERENCES, TALKS, WORKSHOPS
2022    Make your own magical creature as part of Unicorn Butterfly, Cement Fondu
2022    Relievo: Relief crochet and coiling, Australian Tapestry Workshop
2021    Material Memory as part of pallay yuyay at Verge Gallery
2021    Mother Mind as part of Kuña/Womxn at Bankstown Arts Centre
2020    We are the mainstream, breakout session panelist for International Womxns Day 2020 
2020    Bound Together experimental textile workshop, Blacktown Arts Centre
2019    Nudo, Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne
2018    Story Cloth, Fabric Collage Workshop, New Moon Yanada Community Space Lewisham 
2018    Intergenerational Workshop, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Activities
2018    Viva America Latina Festival Community Art Space 27 Oct
2018    School Holiday Craft Activities, Woollahra (Double Bay) and Paddington Libraries
2018    Making Time workshop, with Alex Falkiner, AIRspace Projects Marrickville
2018    Art Thursdays Radio Interview, Eastside Radio with Maisy Stapleton
2018    Crochet + Soft sculpture, Kafe as Poume, Inner West Festival
​2018    Collaborative making, Woollhara Council Staff workshop
2017    Soft Sculpture Workshop, Totem Road, Sydney
2016    Writing an Artist Statement, CV and Bio, ATASDA
2016    Panel Discussion “Hard vs Soft” Gallery Lane Cove    
2016    Soft Sculpture and Toy making, Gallery Lane Cove    
2015    Paper objects and wearables, ATASDA
2015    Paper Sculpture, Primrose Paper Arts Inc
2014    Paper Sculpture + Soft Sculpture, Woollahra Council /Small Sculpture Prize
2013    Collaborative Mark Making, Ngala Mai pARenT group
2013    Paper Folding, Woollahra Council /Small Sculpture Prize
2013    Crochet Workshop, Gallery Lane Cove
2012    Crochet Workshop, Gaffa Gallery
2012    Artist Talk “Almas Gemelas/Twin Souls”, RMIT Gallery
2011    Artist Talk + “Gifts of Exchange” workshop, Cross Art Projects
2011    Artist Talk “Almas Gemelas/Twin Souls” Tamworth Regional Gallery
2011    Conference paper  “Writing from the margin: Letters of Resistance” presented at Picture This: Postcards and Letters Beyond text University of   Sussex, Brighton, UK
2011     Departamento 20, Radio Interview 1050AM Uruguay, 20 January

OTHER POSITIONS
2021 -         Member, Charrúa Oipik Udimar Nomade/Indigenous Uruguay Biennale
2021 -         Member, Sydney Indigenous Research Network, The University of Sydney
2021 -         Phd candidate, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
2019 -         Guest Artist, Studio A          
2018 - 2019    Committee member AIRspace Projects Inc, Marrickville
2010-2014      Casual Lecturer (Textiles), UNSW Art & Design

COLLECTIONS
Private collections Australia wide and overseas. Ford Land Company, Blacktown Art Centre, State Library of Victoria, World Textile Art USA.
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  • eguahé porá
  • exhibitions
    • quarai 2022
    • birth of sucuri 2022
    • a place where we can be together 2022
    • in the fibre of her being 2021
    • kuña/womxn 2021
    • pallay yuyay 2021
    • kalunga 2020
    • iyanla 2019
    • playdate 2018
    • lucky swag 2015
    • face to face 2014
    • odalisque 2014
    • sepiasiren 2012 *adult content*
    • mellorado 2012
    • adiafa/diyafa 2011
    • where yah from? 2010
    • rebirth 2008
    • I am...Black
  • zines + books
  • projects
    • everyday ceremony
    • Uruguay Indigenous Biennale 2023
    • design isolate 2020
    • meroogal 2020
    • heartstrings 2018
    • TOAF 2016 + 2017
  • interviews + talks
  • studio do prado
  • bio + cv
  • contact