Parallel Universe is a series comprised of thirteen glass-boxed dioramas (each approx. 20 x 27 x 23cm) and thirteen ink-jet prints (each approx. 95 x 130cm).

 

In the series I have combined miniature human figures with my assemblage work to create tiny worlds that offer colourful and whimsical architectural propositions. Sourced from an architectural supply shop, the human models embody a number of different archetypes, and it is this arbitrary representation that I find compelling and in keeping with my methodology of chance findings. The people are colourful and detailed, matching the palette of my plastic assemblages, the marrying of the two being a process of intuition.

 

The human representations create the individual titles, such as, for example,

The backpacker and the performance artist and The dandy and the daredevil.

The use of figurative representation to anchor and animate my sculptural work is a new development, stemming from my work in public sculpture, where scale relating to human size is key. 

Louise Paramor

 

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).  She is well-known for her large-scale public art commissions throughout Australia, which often originate from found domestic and industrial objects reinterpreted into brightly coloured pop-inspired forms.

 

Paramor’s work is held in the following collections: the Art Gallery of Western Australia,  National Gallery of Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Curtin University, Perth, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Monash University Museum of Art, Artbank, Glen Eira City Council, Melbourne, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria and the Gold Coast City Art Gallery.

 

Louise is represented by Finkelstein Gallery, Melbourne

 

Website: www.louiseparamor.com
Instagram: @louise_paramor

 

The works in this exhibition were created with the assistance of the City of Melbourne.  

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You can find a copy of the exhibition room brochure and pricelist here...