About
Paula Caffrey is an Irish Artist, born in Belfast in 1991. She works and lives between here and the south of France.
She holds an MA from University of the Arts, London and a Bachelor of Design in Illustration, with First Class Honours, from DJCAD Dundee.
She is Co-Founder of design studio 27graphique.com
Illustration clients include Scottish Government, Northern Ireland Hospice, Livingston Designer Outlet, Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble and The Fews Ensemble.
Selection of group exhibitions
Stories of Home 2025 (Northern Festival of Illustration 2025)
Hartlepool Art Gallery, UK
How Does it Feel 2025
Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N.Ireland
Make moves 2021
Space Ac Gallery’, Seoul, South Korea
MultipliCity 2020
Corsica Studios, London, UK
New Designers ‘One Year In’ 2018
Business Design Centre, London, UK
Transition 2017
Whitespace, Edinburgh, Scotland
D&AD New Blood Festival 2015
Old Spitalfields Market, London, UK
Alumni 2014
Creative Exchange, Edinburgh, Scotland
Undiscovered Landscapes 2014
Tin Roof Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
Awards
Northern Festival of Illustration Prize 2025
Shortlisted (Emerging Animator)
ACNI Artist International Development Fund 2024
Artist residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (March 2025)
Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
ACNI SIAP Award 2022
Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
John Byrne Award 2021 & 2019
Shortlisted
ACNI Collection Open Submission Scheme 2021
Recipient
New Designers ‘One Year In’ 2018
Selected (“Top 100 new designers in the UK”)
Creative Edinburgh Award 2016
Winner - Student category
Print Futures Award 2016
Recipient