[3] Pau graduated from Diagnostic Radiography in 1985 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and has worked as a professional radiographer and mammographer in Queen Mary Hospital.
When she was nine-years old , Pau received a Kodak 135 film camera from her father and became interested in photographic techniques and the world of imagery.
[5] In the early 1990s, Pau began to create video installations, such as Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore in collaboration with Chan Pik Yu and Jesse Dai[11] and Recycling Cinema (1998), a video that captures blurred images of moving vehicles on a Hong Kong highway, was exhibited at the Hong Kong Pavilion in the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001,[12] and in Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World at the Guggenheim Museum (2017).
[14] In 1986, together with Wong Chi-fai, May Fung, and Comyn Mo, she founded Videotage, Hong Kong's oldest video and media art space.
[5] In 1996, she founded Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, an annual event that includes exhibitions, conferences, seminars, school tours and workshops.