Staff Profiles

Education

PhD , The University of New South Wales, Sydney , .
MFA , The University of New South Wales, Sydney , .
BA , Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne , .
GradDip Fine Art , Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology , .
Higher Diploma of Teaching Secondary Art and Craft , State College of Victoria, Melbourne , .

Areas of Expertise

Holography, Drawing.

Teaching Areas

Drawing, PhD/MFA supervision.

Current Research Activity

Paula Dawson is internationally recognised for making the world’s largest laser transmission holograms of human environments. She won the Grand Prix at the first International High Tec Art Biennale in Nagoya, Japan in 1989 and was the recipient of an Australian Artist Creative Fellowship. Paula has undertaken numerous international residencies including extended periods of research at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, USA and the Laboratoire de Physique et Optique, Besancon, France. Paula’s major holographic works are held in national and international collections. Her research focuses on the agencies of pictorial representation for holograms in respect to the human figure, that is, darkness, luminosity and surface.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2004, Mirror Mirror. Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

Group Exhibitions

October, 2003, Light from Shadow: The Legacy of Chiaroscuro in Spatial Imaging. Ivan Dougherty Gallery , Sydney, NSW.

2000, Body Language: Art, Sport and the Cyber Conversation. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

1999, On the Tiles. Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

1999, Shifting Currents. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

1999, Metis. National Gallery of Australia; National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra, NSW.

1999, The Possibilities of Portraiture. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, NSW.

Works Exhibitioned in a Competition

2001, Portia Geach Memorial Award. S.H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

1998, Archibald Prize. The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

Grants

Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, Chief Investigator . (2004-2006),

The Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant. (2005-2006),

Professional Associations

Holocentre, Long Island, New York
Artist in Residence

Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of technology Cambridge, Mass, USA
Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow

Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute, RMIT, Melbourne
Director, Invited Artist Program