Paola Balla
Title
Paola Balla
Birthplace
Wemba-Wemba, Gunditjmara
Primary Sources
Balla, P., Golding, K., Land, C. (2024). This Full Agency, This Decolonised Spirit: Talking Blak to Cooks’ Cottage. In Grieves, G., Spiers, A. (Eds.), Art and Memorialisation. Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World, vol 6. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6289-7_8
Balla, P. (2023). Disrupting Artistic Terra Nullius: a focus on the processes and places of repair. Journal of Public Pedagogies, (7). https://doi.org/10.15209/jpp.1277
Balla, P., Jackson, K., Price, R., Quayle, A. F., & Sonn, C. C. (2023). Blak women’s healing: Cocreating decolonial praxis through research yarns. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 29(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000637
Balla, P., Jackson, K., Quayle, A. F., Sonn, C. C., & Price, R. K. (2022). “Don't let anybody ever put you down culturally…. it's not good…”: Creating spaces for Blak women's healing. American Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12607
Balla, P. (2020). Disrupting Artistic Terra Nullius: The ways that First Nations women in art & community speak Blak to the colony & patriarchy. Doctoral dissertation, Victoria University. Accessed 10 November, 2024. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42147/
Balla, P. (2020). Affirmation. Koorie Heritage Trust. https://koorieheritagetrust.com.au/whats-on/exhibitions/affirmation/
Secondary Sources
Sonn, C.C., Quayle, A.F., & Balla, P. (2022). Community arts for critical community psychology praxis: Towards decolonisation and Aboriginal self-determination. In Carolyn Kagan, J. Akhurst, J. Alfaro, R. Lawthom, M. Richards, & A. Zambrano (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of community psychology: facing global crises with hope (pp. 212–226). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429325663-17/community-arts-critical-community-psychology-praxis-christopher-sonn-amy-quayle-paola-balla
Thorner, S., Edmonds, F., Clarke, M., & Balla, P. (2018). Maree's backyard: Intercultural collaborations for Indigenous sovereignty in Melbourne. Oceania, 88(3), 269-291. https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5206
Ten Buuren, K., & Hodge, M. (Eds.). (2022). Collective movements: First Nations collectives, collaborations and Creative Practices from across Victoria. Monash University Publishing. https://publishing.monash.edu/product/collective-movements/
Thorner, S., Edmonds, F., Clarke, M., & Balla, P. (2018). Maree's backyard: Intercultural collaborations for Indigenous sovereignty in Melbourne. Oceania, 88(3), 269-291. https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5206
Extra Resources
Paola Balla. Deadly Story. Accessed March 26, 2025. https://deadlystory.com/page/culture/Annual_Days/NAIDOC_Week/NAIDOC_2018/NAIDOC-week/Paola_Balla
Baker, A.G., & Balla, P. Talking art & ideas, In conversation with Paola Balla (February 17, 2022). Flinders University. YouTube. Accessed Aug 19, 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7C6C49uNpU
Harvey, J.L. (2022). Wemba Wemba + Gunditjmara Woman Paola Balla on designing the 'Blak Love' tram. Accessed August 19, 2022. https://thedesignfiles.net/2022/10/creative-people-paola-balla-blak-love-tram/
Collection
Citation
“Paola Balla,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 13, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/114.