P A U L A F I T Z S I M O N S

Paula Fitzsimons is an Irish Visual Artist utilizing modes of live performance art, photography, moving image, sound, text and expanded drawing technique to make time based works works of art. Paula works with ephemeral, natural and found materials such as Foam, Dust and Orchids. Her art practice is informed by movements such as FLUXUS, GUTAI and ARTE POVERA, in a world of things, to convene and orchestrate a weave of material crisis as an art practice without edges. Paula was awarded a PHD at the Royal College Art London for her practice based work titled 'UP AGAINST THE WALL: A Journey in Culture, from Resistant to Dynamic, Encountering The Limit in the Process'  in 2023. Paula has exhibited works in Ireland, Britain, Italy, France, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, South Korea and Dubai.

General info
A R T I S T
Dublin, Ireland
Paula Fitzsimons is a visual artist who utilises modes of live performance, photography, video, text and drawing to make time based works of art. She is concerned with live art practice, holding close the precious breath of the 'Other'. To transgress using actions and material crisis from a deep well resonating between the personal and the political. Understanding that contemporary artists work in increasingly complex cultural environments, live art practice allows an investigation of the self in a liminal space oscillating between being and becoming. In this sense, to look beyond the studio to a wider, real and direct negotiation with materials and images. The work holds an interest in the politics of sexual identity, issues of loss, melancholia and the use of actions as carriers for meaning, holding close that which is gone or lost to us, reflecting on art as a form of resistance and aiming to find the image somewhere in the print of doing.
Education
London
2014 - 2016
MA Painting: Performance Pathway
Royal College of Art
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