Paula do Prado

Paula do Prado  

Paula do Prado uses various techniques and materials including painting, textiles and photography. She addresses several issues in her work including identity, stereotypes, and race. Her work contains references to her culture as well as her experience of living in Australia. She is originally from Uruguay and often combines her heritage and language with her art. Her works often contains Spanish phases and sayings, this is an advantage in her art as “this tension between exclusion and inclusion is important” (Prado quoted in Madeleine). “Art provides a vehicle for me to explore, scrutinise, decipher and tease out these interconnections between culture, race and identity…dealing with some of these issues is hard…I’m not an activist by any means…It”s more about seeing things differently” (Prado quoted in Madeleine). Her work on gender is helpful for my work, I am looking at gender, and much of her work does too, she sees gender “like race, as another category that is socially constructed, that I don’t think anyone truly fits into neatly” (Prado Quoted in Madeleine).  

Bibliography  

Madeleine, A. Paulo do Prado. At: https://wwwartistprofile.com.au/paula-prado/(Accessed on 18th of November 2019).