Wendy Paramor b. 12 December 1938

  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
Wendy Paramor was a painter. She died in 1975.
Tags: Colour field, Abstract painting, Hard edge
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The Field
Date
1968
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

The Field was the first temporary exhibition in the newly opened National Gallery of Victoria building in St Kilda Road. Its curators, John Stringer and Brian Finemore, proudly proclaimed its partisanship as it celebrated the work of a new generation of Australian abstract artists.
“It is not impartial and comprehensive. It is biassed to define one particular direction in contemporary Australian art,” they wrote.
The Field was held a year after MoMA’s Two Decades of American Painting travelled to Sydney and Melbourne, and both its content and its catalogue were significantly influenced by that exhibition. Its professional production as much as the content of the lively hard edge abstract works encouraged the perception that this was the avant garde in Australia in 1968.
In 2018, the 50th anniversary of The Field, the National Gallery of Victoria recreated the exhibition at Federation Square.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Colour field, Abstract, Hard edge, Minimalism

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Residences
  • 1938 - 1943 Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1943 - 1960 Sydney, NSW
  • 1960 - 1963 Europe, United States of America, United Kingdom (travel)
  • 1963 - 1966 Sydney, NSW
  • 1966 - 1975 Hoxton Park, New South Wales
  • 1968 - 1975 Hoxton Park, New South Wales
Tags
  • Colour field
  • Abstract painting
  • Hard edge
Related people
  • Paramor, Luke (parent of)
  • Paramor, Luke (parent of)
Related person groups
  • Central Street Gallery (associate of)
  • Central Street Gallery (associate of)
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