Louise Paramor
Re-working of selected pieces from the High Society (2020) series and the Palace of the Republic (2017) series, 2024
Archival paper, MDF, found wood and plastic objects, steel and aluminium armatures
Louise Paramor’s grouping of exuberant and irreverent sculptural figures, taken from her ongoing High Society (2020) and Palace of the Republic (2017) series, greet us as we enter the Melbourne Art Fair. In this lively cluster of works, a monumental paper form is encircled by a throng of more human scaled sculptures, which take on distinctly anthropomorphic qualities.
Here, Louise Paramor’s keen sense of play and ongoing experimentation with colour, volume and scale is on full display. Combining the honeycomb paper technique, which the artist has refined over the last two decades, with her signature use of found objects and the urban detritus, she presents colourful hybrid forms that appear at once robust and fragile. Paramor’s employment of luscious primary hues and her distinct formal language transforms these everyday materials into an arresting sculptural assemblage which engages seriously with modernist traditions while suggesting the fun and frivolity of social gatherings.
Artist Biography
Louise Paramor graduated from the Western Australian Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting (1985) and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts (1988).
Paramor has regularly exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1988, and has been awarded several grants and international residencies including an Australia Council Fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin,1999-2000 and an Australia Council Studio Residency, Greene Street, New York in 2011. In 2010 she won the prestigious McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award with her piece Top Shelf.
She is well known for her monumental public art commissions, which often combine formal concerns with a pop-inspired sensibility. Large-scale commissions include Panorama Station, Peninsula Link Freeway, Melbourne (2012), and more recently Transformer, Moreland Train Station, Melbourne (2021) and Soul Train, Great Victorian Railway Trail, Highlands, Victoria (2022).
Represented by VOID_Melbourne (Naarm/Melbourne), Booth H8.
