Deborah Paauwe is one of the most successful young photomedia artists in Australia today. Born in Pennsylvania with a mixed Dutch and Chinese background, her early childhood was spent in Singapore before settling in Adelaide at the age of 13. Now, still only 30, she is ranked amongst the top ten most collectable photomedia artists in the country. Her first video piece, Beautiful Games was shown in October at the Centre for Contemporary Photography during the 2003 Melbourne Festival and a new body of photographic work opened a month later at Fotonoviembre 2003, a international photographic biennial in the Canary Islands. Her photographs were recently shown in the National Gallery of Thailand in Bangkok and Singapore Art Museum as part of the Photographica Australis exhibition, which is currently the Australian entry in the Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka. Deborah Paauwe is one of the featured artists selected the 2004 Adelaide Biennale and she is the first photomedia artist to be selected for the annual SALA book, a monograph published for the South Australian Living Artists festival. She will have an exhibition at Greenaway Art Gallery in August to coincide with the book launch and is also showing at Sutton Galleries in Melbourne during the year.

(Biography from artist's website.)