Paris Naday

Paris Naday lives and works from her self-built studio tucked away in the forested hills of Northern NSW Australia.

Paris works mainly in New Media constructing digital abstract scapes using her laptop, scanner, and DSLR she also creates sculpture from photographs and 2D multimedia montage, using anything and everything she can find. Brave, bold and uncompromising. Paris's work explores her concern with the state of the environment, her investment in a just social economy, her dedication to self inquiry and her exploration of and fascination with the digital evolution and its impact, in particular the development of artificial intelligence and social media.

Influenced by Dali, Picasso, Mondrian, Warhole Whitely, Monet and Pollack Paris’s work is an eclectic post-cyber fusion of styles and mediums. Paris is a professional video director/editor and teaches multimedia at her local University and Technical college. She also and runs her own Information Technology consultancy service Bridge Digital.

Paris has won awards for her film, new-media and sculpture work and loves the challenge of collaboration finding that "collaboration pushes me to answer questions I wouldn't ask myself, deepening the artistic process with constant feedback and requiring a state of compassion and generosity, moving my art and my self forward".

Paris collaborates on many projects with her partner Darmin Cameron, their photographic-montage sculpture Utopia Towers won the Coraki Art Prize for sculpture in 2012.

Paris exhibits and sells her art regularly in her local area.

"I am not sure whether my art is a strong invocation of whimsy or a compelling function of the universe in which I appear to reside. I am torn between taking total responsibility for it and taking none. I experience a definite compulsion when I work, I am consumed by a piece, an idea, an illusion until it is finished. I feel most alive, at peace and fulfilled when I am creating, rarely constrained by medium or style my work is a form of escape, I am pulled constantly through and past my creations towards the unknown where I happily roam.” (Paris Naday)

Bachelor of Film Production: 2009
Graduate Diploma Information Technology: 2011
Master of Arts (media and Communication) 2016

Best Sculpture: Coraki Art Prize
1st Prize Collaboration: Bundjalung Art Award
Best Film: Spirit of Woodford Award - Editor/Camera
Exceptional student scholarship: SAE Institute Byron Bay.
Award for Excellence in Film Studies: SAE Institute Byron Bay.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Peppercorn Project

MANAGER: Bridge Digital

TEACHING

Digital and Multimedia, journalism, screen studies: Southern Cross University

Screen and Media: North Coast TAFE

Autumn Arts Extravaganza 2019
Blue Knob Gallery: Blue Knob NSW 2018
Nimbin Spring Arts Nimbin NSW 2019

Picasso, Monet, Mondrian, Dali, Warhole, Whitely, Pollack

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