Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Artist of the Day, May 19, 2021: Louise Paramor, an Australian sculptural artist, painter (#1287)

 Louise Paramor (1964) is an Australian sculptural artist, painter. She graduated from the Western Australian Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, and completed a post-graduate diploma in Sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1988.

She has regularly exhibited her work nationally and internationally since then, and has been awarded several grants and international residencies, including an Australia Council fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) from 1999-2000. In 2010, she won the prestigious McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award with her work Top Shelf.

 
Recently, the National Gallery of Victoria invited Paramor to take over a dedicated space of the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, with a. Specially commissioned installation involving a series of new paper sculptures that reference her earlier artistic practice, in conjunction with a survey of her recent colourful plastic assemblages.  

Paramor’s work is held in numerous collections, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Curtain University (Perth), Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA, Monash University Museum of Art, Artbank, Glen Eira City Council (Melbourne), McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park (Victoria), and the Gold Coast City Art Gallery.


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 Ms. Louise Paramor

 foam-born
Berlin, Germany, 2000

 Lustgarten
Berlin, Germany, 2000

 Lustgarten
Berlin, Germany, 2000

Lustgarten
Berlin, Germany, 2000

 Letters, Lies & Alibis,
RMIT University, Melbourne, 2004

 Letters, Lies & Alibis
RMIT University, Melbourne, 2004

 A Bunch of Flowers 2006

Show Court 3
Melbourne Olympic Parks, 2007

Show Court 3
Melbourne Olympic Parks, 2007

  Monumental Jam Session
Werribee Mansions, Victoria, 2008

 Tritonic Jam Session
Federation Square, Melbourne, 2008

 Heavy Metal Jam Session
the Docklands, Melbourne, 2009

Heavy Metal Jam Session
the Docklands, Melbourne, 2009

Stupa City 2011

Stupa City 2011

Stupa City 2011

Panorama Station
Melbourne, 2012

Panorama Station
Melbourne, 2012

Wild Cards  #1" Snake 2013

Wild Cards  #3: Poodle 2013

  Wild Cards  #4: Tiger 2013

  Wild Cards:  Formal Elephant 2013

North Polar
Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne, Victoria, 2014

 Boomtown 
64 small-scale plastic assemblages and 8 large gloss enamel painted paper collages, 2016

 Boomtown 2016

Boomtown 2016

Boomtown 2016

 Feeling Machines
Bowden Main Park, Adelaide, 2016

 Feeling Machines
Bowden Main Park, Adelaide, 2016

Palace of the Republic
major exhibition at The NGV, Melbourne, Australia, 2017

Palace of the Republic
major exhibition at The NGV, Melbourne, Australia, 2017

Palace of the Republic
major exhibition at The NGV, Melbourne, Australia, 2017

Palace of the Republic
major exhibition at The NGV, Melbourne, Australia, 2017

Palace of the Republic
major exhibition at The NGV, Melbourne, Australia, 2017

Palace of the Republic
major exhibition at The NGV, Melbourne, Australia, 2017

Palace of the Republic
major exhibition at The NGV, Melbourne, Australia, 2017

 

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