Artist Biography
Paula Rosa was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1970.
Her interest in drawing and painting and her carreer as a plastic artist started at an early age.
She graduated both in Industrial Design and Equipment and Space Design at the Jean Piaget Institute and Lusofona University in Lisbon.
Since then, Paula Rosa has been working in her studio - Homoludens Design- in Lisbon and she has also been involved in a variety of activities related to visual arts.
In 2003, being conscious of the importance of digital technologies and how they have been revolutionizing the arts, she began to experiment several techniques in the digital canvas.
Her first solo exhibition including Digital Art - "Malfunctions"- occurred in 2004, in Portugal.
This show was followed by a variety of other presentations, including "Digital-isms"(2005), "Surrealizations" (2005), "Mouse It!" (2006) and "New Digital Media in Arts" at the Water Museum in Coimbra (2007), which included a series of workshops and conferences by the artist about art digitally created and/or generated.
Her work is now part of some private collections and she has been represented in several national and international exhibitions and in a variety of galleries and on line museums.
Artist
Statement
I believe I've always hated limiting frames and I certainly like to experiment on new materials. The material world is a giant canvas and an infinity of mediums, as well as the mind.
Experimentation means to me real apotheosis, the quintessence of knowledge. I'm a perfectionist. Although I'm conscious that I will never reach perfection. I've just been enjoying the endless road.
I believe that a new aesthetics has grown from the digital media, allowing the artist more freedom during the creative act, in which the computer represents both, the material and the medium, being a powerful tool as fast as imagination.
It's not easy to define my art in a few words. I've always faced it as a product of dreams with eyes opened widely, a journey through the human brain, exploring its darker places, opening imaginary doors to empty imaginary rooms... or maybe not.
Paula Rosa
