Wendy Paramor

Wendy Paramor (12 December 1938 – 28 November 1975) was an Australian artist. In 2014, the Paramor Prize was created by the Liverpool City Council.

Early life and education Paramor was born in Melbourne Victoria, on 12 December 1938.

After leaving school at the age of 15, she completed a secretarial course at her father's insistence before studying art at the East Sydney Technical College and Julian Ashton Art School.

Career Between 1960 and 1963, she lived in Europe, traveling and exhibiting work in Lisbon, London and New York City. While in Portugal, Paramor had solo exhibitions for three months on a grant from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Coimbra, and Porto. On her return to Sydney in 1963, she lived in a modest terrace house in Waterloo and exhibited in group shows with the Contemporary Art Society of Australia (Victoria and New South Wales), and at the Dominion, Barry Stern and Blaxland galleries in Sydney.

Personal life In October 1967, her son Luke was born. She never married his father, Vernon Treweeke, who was also a painter. In 1973, at the age of 34, Paramor was diagnosed with a brain tumour. She died on 28 November 1975 at the Wolper Jewish Hospital in Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales.