Paula Dunlop is an artist, designer and maker based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia.  Her work is sometimes for the body, sometimes not; she works across the two and in their in-between spaces, interested in how we make (and are simultaneously made by) the practices, places and things we live most closely with.  She is drawn in particular to the histories and traditions of creative activity undertaken in domestic settings, and how our understandings of, and meanings ascribed to, day-to-day objects, spaces and processes can function as significant and transfiguring interfaces between selves and worlds. 

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Dunlop holds a diploma in Visual Art, and a BFA (fashion design) with honours.  In 2009 she co-founded the community fashion and art group The Stitchery Collective, and completed a practice-led PhD at the Queensland University of Technology in 2011, working during and in the years following as a dressmaker.  In 2015 she launched her eponymous jewellery line.  Her art and design work has been shown in galleries throughout Australia, including Artisan (Brisbane), Object Gallery (Sydney) and Craft Victoria (Melbourne), and internationally at the Harbour Art Fair (Hong Kong), Space 776 (New York City), and Compere Collective (New York City).  Her wearables are stocked in various gallery and museum stores in Australia, and at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.

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