LOUISE PARAMOR

2017

Palace of the Republic
Palace of the Republic a major exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV, Australia.

2016

Boomtown
The exhibition Boomtown is comprised of sixty-four small-scale plastic assemblages and eight large gloss enamel painted paper collages.

Feeling Machines
Feeling Machines is a trio of permanent sculptures commissioned for Bowden Main Park, Adelaide.

2015

Supermodel (the public sculpture)
Supermodel is a permanent public sculpture in the seaside town of Lorne, Victoria.

2014

North Polar
North Polar was created for the Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne, Victoria.

Supermodel (the exhibition)
Supermodel is a series of small assemblage sculptures constructed from found plastics, alongside abstract paintings, which are interpretations of these sculptures or 'supermodels'.

Ursa Major
Ursa Major was specifically created for the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014, Federation Square, Melbourne.

2013

Emporium
Louise Paramor: Emporium - A survey exhibition 1990-2013 was held at The Glen Eira City Council Gallery from 27th September to the 3rd November.

Wild Cards
The Wild Card series are a set of assemblages that, alongside industrial and domestic found plastics, incorporate ready-made fibreglass animals.

Noble Ape
Noble Ape was specifically created for the exhibition Melbourne Now. The invitation to participate in the show provided an opportunity to produce a large scale Wild Card assemblage.

2012

Panorama Station
Panorama Station is a permanent public sculpture commissioned by Southern Way for the Peninsula Link Freeway at the EastLink interchange, Melbourne in 2012.

2011

Six Perfections
Created for the ‘Buddha Enlightened 2BE’ , international workshop organised by Delhi based artists Sanjeev Sinha and Dianne Hagen. ‘Buddha Enlightened 2BE’ took place in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India in January 2011.

Stupa City
Stupa City is comprised of four sets of works. The starting point is a group of figurative paper collages assembled from the residue of an earlier work (Letters, Lies & Alibis, 2004). The forms of these characters have been increased in scale to form the second set of works, painted onto glass, creating a different sensibility again, where geometric abstraction meets cubist funk.

2010

Top Shelf
Award winning piece, created specifically for the McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award, Victoria.

2009

Heavy Metal Jam Session
Six permanent public sculptures commissioned for COSTCO Wholesale Australia, situated at the foot of the Southern Star Observatory Wheel in Docklands, Melbourne

Mood Bomb
Mood Bomb was an exhibition of abstract oil paintings on (the back of) glass. As the title indicates these works were conceived intuitively and the paintings themselves ultimately suggested their own titles. Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne.

2008

Tritonic Jam Session
One of an ongoing series that utilises contemporary industrial plastic detritus to explore fundamental principles of modernism such as form, colour and spatiality. Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2008, Federation Square, Melbourne.

Studio Floor
Studio Floor was created for thw group exhibition Flash, curated by Geoff Newton and Jan Duffy, at Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne.

Square
Square was an exhibition of abstract canvases at Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.

Monumental Jam Session
Created specifically for the 2008 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Werribee Mansions, Victoria

2007

Show Court 3
Show Court 3 was a 3-day event which involved setting up 75 sculptures in a professional outdoor tennis court. Curated by Jane O’Neill, Rod Laver Arena Complex, Melbourne Olympic Parks

Industrial Jam Session
Created specifically for the 2007 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Werribee Mansions,Victoria

2006

A Bunch of Flowers
A Bunch of Flowers showcased three distinct groups of works: the first of many plastic assemblage Jam Session sculptures; three large bill-board scale Classic Shazzy car/girl collages and several large abstract collage works.

2005

Up She Goes
Up She Goes is a 4-minute video loop where the hanging of a large collage work (in pieces) is reversed and sped up, with sound added. Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

2004

Letters, Lies & Alibis
Letters, Lies & Alibis was created for the exhibition Non-Stopp, a collaborative project by Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek and Louise Paramor at Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne

2003

FOREVERYOURS
FOREVERYOURS is a series of large collages meticulously assembled using pre-hand-painted gloss paper, which is cut into numerous shapes and then pasted to form images. This imagery comprises a variety of over-scaled interpretations of the Mills and Boon series’ covers.

Off-Cuts
Off-cuts was an exhibition of the first in a series of abstract collages constructed from the refuse of the FOREVERYOURS series of collages. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2002

The Love Artist
Articulated around the theme of eroticism, The Love Artist presents itself as an installation in three complementary parts. Breitengraser – room for contemporary sculpture, Berlin.

Outback Heat (rug)
Made specifically for the exhibition Elvis Has Just Left the Building, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art , Western Australia and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, curated by Boris Kremer.

2001

Heart-On
Heart-On was an exhibition of honey-comb paper sculptures, found objects and borrowed text, and was created during a 3-month residency at IASKA

Outback Heat
Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany

A Very Public Affair
Made specifically for the National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

2000

foam-born
Breitengraser – room for contemporary sculpture, Berlin

Lustgarten
Lustgarten was a series of large-scale ‘honey-comb’ paper sculptures, produced during a one-year Australia Council Fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.

PRE 2000

A selection of older works

Up She Goes

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Up She Goes
Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

Up She Goes is a 4-minute video loop where the hanging of a large collage work (in pieces) is reversed and sped up, with sound added. It is mesmerising and annoying at the same time, as it is unclear as to what is actually happening.

This work came about during a residency in Rotterdam where I created the Classic Shazzy series of car/girl collages.

Gallery wall text:
Everyone has at one time or another walked into a garage of which the walls were covered with pin-ups advertising fancy sports cars. Men can gaze at these images forever, and dream their dreams of power, money, and sexual fulfilment. We tend to forget that cars are 4-wheeled mechanical vehicles, which are used to take us from on point to the other. Cars and girls alike are represented as fetishistic objects. By doubling these images and bringing them into the realm of art, Louise Paramor adopts an attitude of careful attention towards ‘some of the things men dream about’. In her video ‘Up She Goes’, Louise Paramor deconstructs the life size image of a girl leaning over an Italian sports car, in reverse. It is as if we can hear her say ‘eat this, because at the end of the line, or at the real beginning of it, there’s me; a real girl.’
Jeroen Eisinga, Rotterdam, 2005

Filming: Jeroen Eisinga
Editing: Annie Wilson
Music: Geoff Newton (riff from Astrobingo)