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About the artist Paula Dawson has made many of the world's largest laser transmission holograms. Dawson has held residencies at the Laboratoire de Physique et Optique Besancon, France, RMIT applied Physics Dpt. Melbourne Australia, the Holocenter New York and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies MIT, Cambridge MASS. Her first major holographic work, There’s No Place Like Home, 1980 is in collection of the National Gallery of Australia Dawson’s PhD thesis covers the technical and aesthetic issues of her art practice with laser transmission holograms of real objects over two decades. In recent years Dawson has drawn on pictorial agents of early figurative Italian art which she has transposed to synthetically computer generated, real holograms, paintings, drawings and bronze castings. See www.shaodwyfigures.com |