Wendy Paramor was an Australia

Australia

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n artist.

Paramor was born in Melbourne

Melbourne

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. After leaving school at the age of 15, she studied art at the East Sydney Technical College and Julian Ashton

Julian Ashton

Julian Rossi Ashton was an Australian artist and teacher, known for his support of the Heidelberg School and for his influential art school in Sydney....

 art school, before leaving for Europe in 1960 where she held exhibitions in Lisbon

Lisbon

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, London

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 and New York

New York

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. She returned to Sydney in 1963 and established herself in a Philip Cox

Philip Cox

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-designed underground house at West Hoxton

West Hoxton, New South Wales

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. She experimented with sculpture and had two sculptures featured in the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria

National Gallery of Victoria

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's new building in 1968. However, at the age of just 34, she was diagnosed with a brain tumour and she died in 1975.