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2017 to date

Whilst still working on her designs and ideas, Paula has dedicated the last 3 years to retrain and launch a plastic & petroleum-free, vegan, botanical skincare brand, Whitfords, to bring the sustainability issue to a different and potentially wider audience.

2016

28 January – 28 March, Smaller Footprints, Women Response to Climate Change, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, California, US.

2015

Yicca 2015

9 -29 September – AlbumArte, Via Flaminia 122, 00196 Rome, Italy

Paula’s sculpture Footprint One has been selected for Yicca 2015 International Contest of Contemporary Art.

Footprints Series Preview – Open studios event

Saturday & Sunday 16 – 17 May, 11:00 – 18:00

Designer-maker and artist, Paula Ortega, has created in her London studio a new, sustainable bioplastic from milk, which she will be using to create a new body of work, a series of wearable and non-wearable sculptures. A preview of this work will be available to see on 16th and 17th May 2015, from 11am – 6pm, at Studio 130, Telegraph Building, Second Floor Studios & Arts, Harrington Way, Woolwich, London, SE18 5NR.

Collect 2015 – Professional Development for Early Career Makers

Monday 11 May, 2.30pm, Events Space at COLLECT

How can early career makers build lasting, fulfilling practices for themselves? Join Crafts Council Talent Development Manager Katia Stewart, jeweller Paula Ortega and ceramist Alex McCarthy for advice.