Paula Gillen

Influenced

by

Surrealism, Feminism and The Pictures

Generation, my art aims to be satirical, irrelevant, playful. My work explores themes of psychology, social commentary and humorous disruptions of original and found imagery. I create my imagery using a camera and models that I pose and direct. My digital photomontages are created using my own photos, mixed with bookplates, vintage magazines and public domain imagery.

Superpower Women

IN SPACE is an ongoing series that started in 2018. Yearning to escape earthly issues and conflict, I found breathing room in space.

With this body of work, I have created a fictional single-gender society and I use it as a platform for female empowerment. In my photomontages, women exert control over compositions and space territory, with their strong bodies and spirits. Blending NASA and vintage images, pop art and fashion, along with my own original photographs, I have created a realm where forward-thinking women are in charge — and there’s a trap door to Earth if you get out of line.

All of Paula’s works are aluminum prints and 300. each:

(below)

“Bravely Shouting into Space”

(at left)

“Domestic Space”

(on cover)

“Hathor Goddess of the Sky”

(opposite)

“Taishya, Riding High over the Ocean of Storms”

“Velveeta Spa Day in Space”