Born 1964, Sydney, New South Wales; lives and works in Melbourne. Louise Paramor received a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from Curtin University, Perth, in 1985 and in 1988 she completed a Postgraduate Diploma (Sculpture) at the Victorian College of the Arts.

Paramor is well known for her large-scale public art commissions, which often combine formal concerns with a pop-inspired sensibility. Commissions include Panorama Station, Peninsula Link Freeway, Melbourne (2012), and more recently, Transformer, Moreland Train Station, Coburg, Melbourne (2021).

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.

In 2010 she won the prestigious McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award with her piece Top Shelf. Recently the National Gallery of Victoria commissioned the artist to create the installation Palace of the Republic (2017), a series of large scale paper sculptures that referenced her earlier artistic practice, in conjunction with a survey of her recent colourful plastic assemblages.

Paramor’s work is held in many collections including: Art Gallery of Western Australia; National Gallery of Victoria; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Curtin University, Perth; Monash University Museum of Art; Artbank; Geelong Gallery; McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria; and Gold Coast City Art Gallery.

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