Moa Arts

Paula Savage

Australia

Paula Savage is a proud Mualgal woman from the Serganilgal clan group of Dabu on Moa Island, and the Kaurareg Nation of Muralag and Kiriri. She lives in Kubin Community, Moa Island in the near western cluster of islands in Zenadth Kes (the Torres Strait).

Paula has been an active member of Ngalmun Lagau Minaral Art Centre (Moa Arts) since 2017 and in a short period of time has staked out her position as a senior artist of great talent. She works with black and white lino prints, collagraphs and colour monoprints but is perhaps best known for her elaborately crafted island-style weaving.

Her artworks are influenced by her experience of everyday life, which is a blend of traditional customary practices and contemporary influences. She has a unique and powerful graphic style and a strong sense of colour and form which she uses to bring to life the shells and fish bones, the sea life, hunting and fishing implements, luggers and pearl shells of her personal history.