Louise Paramor

View Louise’s recent exhibition “Level Best” Catalogue here

“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.”