Dr Paola Balla
Dr Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator, writer, and academic whose projects focus on Aboriginal women’s stories, resistance, voices, activism, sovereignty and matriarchy.
Balla’s visual practice engages with the impacts of colonial racism and trauma on Blak women’s bodies and encapsulates memory and narrative in photography and installation through practice led research.
Paola was part of the Blak Brow editorial for the Blak Women’s Edition of the Lifted Brow, 2018 & co-curated Sovereignty (2016) and Unfinished Business; Perspectives on Art & Feminism (2017) at ACCA. Paola is based at Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Unit, Victoria University, Footscray.