Paola is a graduate of Sydney College of the Arts, having completed a Visual Arts Degree and Post-Graduate Diploma in Photography. She has been exhibiting photography for the last twenty years in art galleries in Sydney and Wollongong and is represented by United Galleries, Sydney. She currently teaches in Wollongong TAFE Art and Media Department and at the University of Sydney, Tin Sheds Art Workshop. Her art photography is represented in many public and private collections in Australia and the UK. Recently one of her artworks was featured in the publication: Beyond Region, Public Galleries in New South Wales, published by Arts NSW and The Australia Council for the Arts.