Paula Silva has Fine Arts Licenciate degree, Faculty of Fine Arts from Porto University in Portugal, 1999, followed by a one-year program at Bilbao, Faculty of Fine Arts, Basque Country University in Spain. She has developed eight public art exhibition projects since graduating. A key project, Interactive Spaces was a public event funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and the European Cultural Capital Program held in Porto and Rotterdam in 2001. Paula moved to Australia in 2005. She worked on a number of projects in Tasmania including Made Public, exhibited at the Carnegie Gallery in 2007 and Clarendon House for Trust, an exhibition produced by Tasmanian Art School in collaboration with National Trust Tasmania and Ten Days on The Island in 2009. Paula’s interest in alternative exhibition development methodologies and art practice outside traditional gallery contexts led her to commence a PhD (Fine Arts) at the University of Tasmania in 2008.
