Paula Fitzsimons is an Irish Visual Artist utilizing modes of live performance art, photography, moving image, sound, text and expanded drawing technique to make time based works works of art. Paula works with ephemeral, natural and found materials such as Foam, Dust and Orchids. Her art practice is informed by movements such as FLUXUS, GUTAI and ARTE POVERA, in a world of things, to convene and orchestrate a weave of material crisis as an art practice without edges. Paula was awarded a PHD at the RCA London for her practice based work titled 'UP AGAINST THE WALL: A Journey in Culture, from Resistant to Dynamic, Encountering The Limit in the Process'  in 2023. Paula has exhibited works in Ireland, Britain, Italy, France, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, South Korea and Dubai.