Paula McCambridge, an emerging artist living and working in Sydney, completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School in 2017.

McCambridge, who grew up in Tasmania, creates two and three-dimensional objects and environments from found materials. She works extensively with underlay, composed of coloured polyurethane foam, felt and gold laminate using it to line rooms, sculpt objects and as a surface for painting.

Underlay, a utilitarian industrial material functions as support material insulating and providing comfort for the floors we walk on, but once it has been laid it becomes invisible.

McCambridge uses underlay in her practice because of the inherent symbolic meaning embedded in its materiality and purpose.  She finds this acutely reflects her experience with gender roles and hierarchies.

In bringing industrial materials into a fine art context, McCambridge elevates and highlights their aesthetic properties and suggests a simple proposition: to make visible what is otherwise supressed, forgotten or censored.

 


Curriculum Vitae

Education:

2017 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), National Art School, NSW

Solo Exhibition:

2019 Permeation IV: Threesome, Waiting Room Project,SSH, NSW

Group Exhibitions:

2019 The Other Art Fair, Factory 49 Exhibitor, Sydney, NSW

2018 Eclectic, Ten Forty Seven Gallery, NSW

           Flex, AIRspace Projects, NSW

2017 Graduate Exhibition, The National Art School Gallery, NSW

           Grid Show, Raynor Hoff Gallery, NSW

           Proximity, Articulate Project Space, NSW

2016    Drawing Week Exhibition, Rayner Hoff Gallery, NSW

2015    Landscapes, Rayner Hoff Gallery, NSW

           Breakthrough Festival, aMBUSH Gallery, NSW

Collections:

Various Private Collections

Curation:

2019    PermeationIV: Threesome, Waiting Room Project, SSH, NSW (co-curation with Upasana Papadopolous and Joel Humphries)

2018    Flex, Airspace Projects, NSW, (co-curation with Upasana Papadopolous, Belle Blau and Cameron Stead)