Biography
Paula Ortega is an Anglo-Argentinean artist concerned with what is precious and how we assign meaning and value to objects. A trained opera singer, she also studied music composition and audio-visual communication before training in jewellery making in London. Paula brings these intangible but highly creative prior bodies of work to her pieces.
Relentlessly curious, precise and passionate about materials and processes, Paula is driven by her fascination for fractals and the unseen structures and patterns in our world – both created by nature and humankind.
Paula is part of a materials revolution, where artists and makers are not only making objects, but also creating sustainable materials with which those objects are made. Driven by a desire to raise awareness of what constitutes the objects we use and admire, their origin and the trace that they eventually leave, whilst challenging our perception of their value, Paula has been developing her unique casein-based material for the last two years and her Footprints series of wearable and non-wearable sculptures explore the ideas behind the lifespan of a piece.
In 2014 Paula was selected to take part of the Crafts Council UK’s prestigious Hothouse 4 Programme.
