Louise Paramor Level Best
Sept 7 - Oct 6 2024
Artist Statement
The exhibition Level Best brings together a few different streams of my practice: collage, photoghraphy, painting and sculpture.
Sculpture is at the heart of my artwork. I make assemblages that begin with the gathering of a large quantity of plastic objects, sometimes drawn from the industrial world, other times from the domestic world, depending on the scale in which I am working.
I am attracted to bright colours and formal shapes. Once I have a good selection I begin the process of trial and error, arranging the parts to create sculptures. I am directed by the objects themselves, sometimes the result is anthropomorphic, other times more abstract. I tend to produce series, resulting in a dynamic where individual sculptures relate to one another.
Quite often I will make images of select sculptures, re-presenting them in imaginary contexts. Scale is everything to me. In my practice generally, I work with a broad range of sizes, from the minute to the monumental, and every dimension in between.
The best example of the monumental in my work is the seventeen-metre high public sculpture Panorama Station, situated on the Peninsula Link Freeway. My smallest works include the Parallel Universe series, in which small architectural propositions are matched with tiny human figurines and presented as glass-boxed dioramas and as large photographs.
Sales:
Julie Collins - Director gallery@djprojects.net
0417324 795
Free Installation and Delivery within Victoria.
Shipping arranged interstate and Overseas.
21 Morce Ave Sorrento, Victoria, Australia
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1.
Parallel Universe - The bride and the groom
Framed, Inkjet print on archival paper; edition 1/3
127 x 92cm
$4,500
Framed,
127
$4,500
2. Parallel Universe - Farewell, my lovely
Inkjet print on archival paper; edition 1/3
x 92cm
Framed, Inkjet print on archival paper; edition 1/3
127 x 92cm
$4,500
3. Parallel Universe - Tourists
4. Parallel Universe - Three generations
Framed, Inkjet print on archival paper; edition 1/3
127 x 92cm
$4,500
5. Parallel Universe - The backpacker and the performance artist
Framed, Inkjet print on archival paper; edition 1/3
127 x 92cm
$4,500
Framed, Inkjet print on archival paper; edition 1/3
$4,500
6. Parallel Universe - The big deal
127 x 92cm
Gloss enamel painted paper construction
Framed measurements – 179 x 102 cm
$7,500
7. Boomtown #3
Gloss enamel painted paper construction
Framed measurements – 178 x 110cm
$7,500
8. Boomtown #8
Gloss enamel painted paper construction
Framed measurements– 176 x 107.5 cm
$7,500
9. Boomtown #5
10. Her Majesty
Plastic Edition 1/3
79 x 30 x 12cm
$4,000
Large Scale 2.5m. Suitable for outdoors - steel & 3 pac painted.
Edition of 3 $90,000
11. Trannie
Plastic Edition 1/3
85 x 26 x 26cm
$4,000
76 x 30 x 30cm
$4,000
Large Scale 2.5m. Suitable for outdoors - steel & 3 pac painted.
Edition of 3 $75,000
12. Mama
Plastic Edition 1/3
Plastic Edition 1/3
80 x 28 x 25cm
$4,000
Large Scale 2.5m. Suitable for outdoors - steel & 3 pac painted.
Edition of 3 $75,000
13. Snakey
90 x 20 x 20cm
$4,000
Large Scale 3m. Suitable for outdoors - steel & 3 pac painted.
Edition of 3 $105,000
14. Atlas Plastic Edition 1/3
Plastic Edition 1/3
76 x 32 x 32cm
$4,000
Large Scale 2.5m. Suitable for outdoors - steel & 3 pac painted.
Edition of 3 $90,000
15. Hoopla
Plastic Edition 1/3
63 x 33 x 24cm
$4,000
Large Scale 2.5m. Suitable for outdoors - steel & 3 pac painted.
Edition of 3 $75,000
16. Balls
Plastic Edition 1/3
80 x 50 x 30cm
$4,000
Large Scale 2.5m. Suitable for outdoors - steel & 3 pac painted.
Edition of 3 $90,000
17. Hugger
76
18. Supermodel Plastic Edition 1/3
x 38 x 30cm
$4,000
95 x 21 x 21 cm
$4,000
Large Scale 3.5m. Suitable for outdoors - steel & 3 pac painted.
Edition of 3 $75,000
18. Alien Plastic Edition 1/3
20. MatchFit - Balls
Oil enamel paint on glass
42 x 29cm
$2,200
21. MatchFit - The Hugger Oil enamel paint on glass
42 x 29cm
$2,200
22. MatchFit - Hoorah!
Oil enamel paint on glass
42 x 29cm
$2,200
23. MatchFit - Hoopla
Oil enamel paint on glass
42 x 29cm
$2,200
24. MatchFit - Snakey Oil enamel paint on glass 42 x 29cm
$2,200
Previous Steel Fabricated Public Art Projects
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).