Palace of the republic

Presented by Louise Paramor

Hosted by Geelong Gallery
26/07/2018
Talk #53

Image: Louise Paramor

Louise Paramor presents: Palace of the Republic

Paramor discusses her recent major exhibition ‘Palace of the Republic’. Describing the processes of her practice, focussing on small scale sculptures that have been translated into large scale permanent public works.

LOUISE PARAMOR is well known for her large-scale public art commissions, which often combine formal concerns with a pop-inspired sensibility. Recent commissions include 'Panorama Station', Peninsula Link Freeway, Melbourne (2012), and 'Feeling Machines', Bowden Park, Adelaide (2016). 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. Recently the NGV invited the artist 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 recent colourful plastic assemblages.