Paula Taaffe graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, with the New Zealand Fellowship of Artists award. Subsequently Paula lived and worked in Canada and the United States exhibiting, freelance illustrating and teaching.
Her painting and photography have been selected for a number of exhibitions and awards including Canada’s national touring exhibition ‘The Feminine Viewpoint’, New Zealand’s Norsewear Exhibition. She was the recipient of the Noske Skog Tasman Award in 2010 Molly Morpeth Canada Exhibition.