Paola Bazz

Paola is an Italian-born and Manchester, UK-based artist. Born in Padua, Italy. She studied painting and drawing in her formative years and completed her degree in Architecture at University IUAV in Venice. Along with house renovations, interiors and store designs, she worked on museum and temporary exhibitions as well as theatrical scenographies in Rome, Padua and Milan between 1991 and 2010.

Following her passion for drawing and painting, which she continued alongside her work as an architect, she have always carried out the activity as painter. Using paper, recycled from newspaper glued on canvas, cardboard or wood, as a medium for her paintings she has experimented with techniques, materials and many varying subjects. The faces of people, the movement of the human body and the relationship between public and private in everyone's life, were the themes of her painting.

Between 2004 and 2008 she tooks part in various group and solo exhibitions in Padua, Milan and Turin and in 2005 she founded, together with other artists, the group “Gruppo Fuoridisegno".

In 2008, in search of new artistic solutions and leaving painting as unique form of expression, she began the production of artworks using printed paper recycled from magazines, newspapers and catalogs . This new artistic research has developed mainly from 2010 when she moved to Brussels, where she founded new inspiration in the chaotic succession of images, messages, colors and culture characteristic of this city.

Based in Manchester since early 2012 she is now looking to explore further the dimension and the power of printed paper, along with issues like the constant and rapid change of our identity and our society.