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Mandy Payne

Sheffield
Painter / printmaker (stone lithography) based Sheffield
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I am a painter/ printmaker inspired by urban landscape in particular Brutalist architectural structures. I am interested in issues of gentrification, social housing and the flux of city environments. Fascinated by the spaces people inhabit, the traces they leave and the capacity of places to absorb memories and experiences. I am drawn to locations that are often overlooked or derided.  

Between 2012 - 2017, my work was inspired by Park Hill, the Sheffield Grade II* listed Brutalist housing estate. The development is currently undergoing regeneration which makes it an interesting place to observe. A portion of the estate has been transformed into luxury flats whilst part remains boarded up and derelict. It is the un - refurbished parts of Park Hill that I am particularly drawn to, where the memories and layers of the past are almost tangible.. I wanted to create a body of work that spoke of the displacement of the established communities and the temporality of the urban landscape.  Since 2017, public access to Park Hill has been restricted so I have been exploring other similar locations in London, Liverpool, Salford and Manchester. In 2019, I received an Arts Council Grant to explore sites in the North East to make new work for an exhinition in 2019-2020 at Huddersfield Museum and Art Gallery.

For my paintings I work with materials that have a physical connection with the sites I depict, namely concrete and spray paint (referencing the graffiti). I cast concrete into small canvases to work on directly, using micro masking tapes to build up zones of flat colour then oil paint for fine detail finishing. 

I have also explored the same subject in print. In April 2015 I was awarded a  2 year fellowship at Leicester Print Workshop to learn stone lithography. This involves mark making directly on slabs of limestone from which multiple prints can be taken. To marry this work with my paintings I often print the lithographs on to Japanese paper which is then collaged on to concrete. 

 

MANDY PAYNE – COMPLETE CV

 EDUCATION

·         2011 - 2013   BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), Nottingham University

·         2007 - 2010   HND Fine Art, Sheffield College

·         1992 - 1995   MDentSci University of Leeds

·         1982 - 1986   BDS University of Manchester (Dentistry)

 

EMPLOYMENT

·         2012 - Present time – Full time self-employed artist

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

·         2019 - ‘Out of Time’ – Huddersfield Art Gallery 5/10/19 – 04/01/20

·         2018 – ‘Out Of Place’ – Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham

·         2014 – ‘Between Places and Spaces’ – Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington,

·         2016 – ‘Betwixt and Between’ – Cupola Gallery , Sheffield

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:

John Moores Painting Prize 2020, 2016 and 2014 (Prize winner) 

Castlegate Prize 2020

New Light Arts Prize, 2015 (First Prize Winner) and 2017 (invited artist) and 2020

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014,

Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, 2019

'Made in Britain' - 82 Painters in the 21st Century at The National Museum of Poland, Gdansk, 2019

Contemporary Masters From Britain- Yantai Art Museum/ Artall Gallery Nanjing/ Jiangsu Art Gallery Nanjing/ Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, China, 2017 -2018

Contemporary British Painting Prize, 2016,

National Open Art Competition 2014 and 2015,

John Ruskin Prize 2014 (Runner Up)

Threadneedle Prize 2013

 

 FULL CV

2021 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 12th Feb - 27th June

2020

·         New Light Art Prize,  Scarborough Art Gallery and Museum, 19th Sept– 12th January

·         Art On A Postcard Winter Auction – Proceeds to Hepatitis C Trust Nov 5th – 19th

·         Prosaic – Generous  Globe Arts, Slaithewaite, 21st September – 31st October

·         Symbiosis :Art and Nature, Darl -e and the Bear, Woodstock, 21st August  - 4th October

·         Castlegate Prize, Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth, 12th Sept– 3rd October

·         Beyond Other Horizons, Lasi Palace of Culture, Romania 1st – 31st March

·         A Little Painting Show, Brunswick Gallery, Leeds, 17th – 30th Jan

 

2019

·         Winter Exhibition Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington, 23rd November- 12th Jan

·         Bethlehem Boys III, Sidney and Mathilda, Sheffield, 5th – 19th December

·         Rogue Women, Rogue Studios, 4 Barrass Street, Manchester, 15th – 30th November

·         Mountain Size – Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough 1st Nov – 30th Nov

·         Salon 11, Old Lock Up Studio, Cromford, 13th – 27th October

·         Prosaic- Mosaic, BLOC Projects, Sheffield, 22nd – 26th October

·         Art On A Postcard Secret Auction – Maddox Gallery, London (14/11/19)

·         Manchester Contemporary Art Fair – Represented by Saul Hay gallery 11th-13th October

·         Time After [( )] AfterTime, The Briggait,141 Bridgegate, Glasgow, 1st – 28th November

·         Two Fold, Oceans Apart, Salford, 6th – 20th October

·         Industrialised – Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, 15th June – 15th September, 2019

·         Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London 10th June – 12th August, 2019

·         Yale Centre For British Art,  19/5/19 – 8/9/19

·          Prosaic, The Coterie, Rotherham, May 3rd – 31st

·         Place, Boston Castle, Rotherham, May

·         Eight Paint, Gage Gallery, Sheffield, 5th – 9th April

·         Made In Britain 82 Painters in The 21st Century, Nat Museum, Poland -14/3/19 – 2/6/19

·         Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London - 5/3/19 – 17/3/19

·         Flat +Earth, Sidney and Mathilda, Sheffield, 21st Feb – 16th March

 

2018

·         Winter Collection, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, 17th November – Jan

·         Small Things, The Circle Gallery, Sheffield, 10th December – 1st February

·         Acquired – Salford Museum and Art Gallery (3/11/18 – 9/6/19)

·         New Light Art Prize – Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, (12/10/18 – 27/1/19) (Invited Artist)

·         Contemporary British Painting Group Members Exhibition –  London (16/11/18- 18/1/19)

·         The Masters RE Printmakers Screen and Stone – Bankside Gallery,(7/11/18 – 18/11/18)

·         Art On A Postcard Secret Auction – Maddox Gallery, London (15/11/18)

·         Confluence – Herrick Gallery, Mayfair, London (15/10/18 – 27/10/18)

·         Salon 10, The Old Lock Up Studio, Cromford, 13th October – November 3rd

·         Towards Each Other, Chapel Walk, Sheffield, 3rd – 15th July,

·         New Light Arts Prize, Huddersfield Art Gallery (27/6/18 – 1/7/18) (Invited Artist)

·         Royal Academy 250th Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London (12/6/18 – 19/8/18)

·         Shortlist, Saul Hay Fine Art, Manchester, 9th June – 22nd July

·         Paint North, Lady Beck Project Space, Leeds (28/2/18 – 4/3/18)

·         For A Burning Love, The Old Lock Up Studio, Cromford, 20th January – 5th February

 

 

2017

·         New Light Arts Prize, Bowes Museum, (17/11/17 – 18/2/18) (Invited Artist)

·         Art On A Postcard Secret Auction – London (16/11/17)

·         Brutal Nattura - Leicester Print Workshop (4/11/17 -27/1/18)

·         MDP Studio Book 2017 Exhibition, Old Granada Studios, Manchester Nov 2017

·         Manchester Contemporary Art Fair (Represented by Zillah Bell Gallery) (27/10/17 -29/10/17)

·         Colour and Form – Gallery Top, Baslow (7/10/17 – 5/11/17)

·         A Study In Stone – Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington (30/9/17 – 22/10/17)

·         Utopia Deferred – Dean Clough Halifax (30/9/17 – 14/1/18)

·         The Original Print Show Curated By Norman Ackroyd – Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk (9/9/17 -14/10/17)

·         Contemporary Masters From Britain, China (July – November) touring Nanjing, Jiangsui,Yantai and Tianjin Museums)

·         Contemporary British Painting Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London (25/7/17 – 5/8/17)

·         The Harley Open, Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate, Worksop (24/6/17 -23/8/17)

·         Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly London (13/6/17 – 20/8/17)

·         Contemporary British Painting Exhibition, Art Space Bermondsey Project, London (13/6/17 – 17/6/17)

·         RBA 300th Annual Exhibition, Mall Gallery, (22/3/17 -1/4/17)

·         New Topographies Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester (17/3/17 – 13/5/17)

·         Multiply, LCB Depot, Leicester

·         Saul Hay Gallery At The Portico Library, Manchester (17/2/17 -18/3/17)

·         RBA Rising Stars Exhibition, London (10/2/17 -12/3/17)

 

2016

·         New Townscapes, EPOK Studios, Stockport (19/11/16 -10/12/16)

·         Art On A Postcard, Maddox Gallery, Mayfair, London (17/11/16

·         Contemporary British Painting Prize, Huddersfield Art Gallery (5/11/16 – 22/1/17)

·         Passion To Print, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester (1/11/16 -31/1/17)

·         One – Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester (8/10/16 -21/10/16)

·         Bankley Studios Open Exhibition, Manchester (7/10/16 – 29/10/16)

·         Contemporary British Painting Prize, Riverside Gallery, Richmond on Thames, London (10/9/16 – 22/10/16)

·         Utopia Deferred, - Corke Gallery, Liverpool (29/7/16 – 29/9/16)

·         Northern Artists at Bellwood and Wright, Lancaster (14/7/16 -29/7/16

·         New Light Arts Prize, Panter and Hall, London (29/6/16 – 1/7/16)

·         Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London (13/6/16 – 21/8/16)

·         John Moores Painting Prize (2016), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (9/6/16 -27/11/16)

·         Graduate Residents Exhibition, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham (9/6/16 -23/6/16)

·         Utopia Deferred, Arts Link, Hull (21/5/16 -2/7/16)

·         Salon 8 – The Old Lock Up Studio, Cromford (23/4/16 – 24/4/16)

·         Drawing Mela – Harrington Mills Studios, Nottingham (10/4/16 -24/4/16)

·         John Moores Painting Prize (2014) China, Minsheng Gallery, Shanghai (28/3/16 -15/5/16)

·         New Light Arts Prize, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate (20/2/16 -12/6/16)

·         Passion To Print, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester (1/11/16 -31/1/17)

 

 

2015

·         Molotovs to Modernism – LCB Depot, Leicester (14/12/15 - 24/12/15)

·         Christmas Mixed Exhibition – Bellwood and Wright, Lancaster (3/12/15 – 24/12/15)

·         PS Mirabel Multiply – Manchester (12/11/15 – 12/12/15)

·         Art On A Postcard – Soho Revies Gallery, London (15/9/15)

·         Park Hill Re – Imagined, Scottish Queen, Park Hill, Sheffield (7/11/15 – 9/11/15)

·         New Light Arts Prize, Bowes Museum, North Yorkshire (16/10/15 - 7/2/16)

·         National Open Art Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London (21/10/15 – 1/11/15)

·         National Open Art Exhibition, Chichester

·         Salon 7 The Old Lock Up Studio, Cromford (12/9/15)

·         Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London (8/6/15 – 16/8/15)

·         The Art Of Wandering, Chapel Walk, Sheffield (18/7/15 – 31/7/15)

·         Invited Artist Ashborne Festival –(21/6/15 – 25/6/15)

·         Autocatalytic Future Games – No Format Gallery, Deptford, London (11/6/15 -17/6/15)

·         Cedric Ford Prize – University of Nottingham (27/4/15 – 15/5/15)

·         Overlooked – Scottish Queen, Park Hill, Sheffield (Curated by S1 Art Space) (18/4/15 – 10/5/15)

·         Harley Open Exhibition, Harley Gallery, Worksop (14/2/15 – 12/4/15)

 

2014

·         Picturing Sheffield – Millennium Gallery, Sheffield (20/11/14 – 12/4/15)

·         John Ruskin Prize Exhibition, Recording Britain Now, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London (12/11/14 – 30/11/14)

·         National Open Art Competition, Somerset London and Minerva Theatre, Chichester (18/9/14 – 14/1/15)

·         Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth, September

·         John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (4/7/14 – 30/11/14)

·         John Ruskin Prize Exhibition, Recording Britain Now, Millennium Galleries,

·         Sheffield (28/6/14 – 12/10/14)

·         Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (9/6/14 – 17/8/14)

·         Process Exhibition, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield (19/4/15- 24/5/14)

·         Sheffield Print Fair, Sheffield

 

       2013

·         Threadneedle Prize For Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London (25/9/13-12/10/13)

·         Wirksworth Festival (7/9/13 – 8/9/13)

·         University of Nottingham Final Degree Show, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

·         Midlands Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington

·         Harley Open Exhibition, Harley Gallery, Worksop (26/1/13 – 17/3/13)

·         Sheffield Open Studios, Lodge House, Sheffield

 

 

 

 

2012

·         Derby Open Exhibition, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby

·         South Yorkshire Sheffield Open, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley

·         Sheffield Open Studios, Lodge House, Sheffield

 

2011

·         Derby Open Exhibition, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby

·         Sheffield Open Studios, Lodge House, Sheffield

 

2010

·         Derby Open, Derby City Art Gallery and Museum, Derby

·         Sheffield Open Studios, Lodge House, Sheffield

 

2009

·         South Yorkshire Open, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley

·         Derby Open, Derby City Art Gallery and Museum, Derby

 

2005 - 2009 - Great Sheffield Art Show, Sheffield

 

RESIDENCIES / COURSES

 

·         2019 – The CoLab Architectural drawing residency, London, October,2019

·         2019 – 10 week drawing course at the Royal Drawing School exploring urban London in transition en plein air

·         2017 - Selected for Studio Book (professional development programme with Mark Devereux Projects, Manchester)

·         2015 - 2 year Fellowship in Stone Lithography

·         2015 - Graduate residency at Nottingham University

·         2013 - Poly- Technic Summer School – SOAR Works, Sheffield

·         2013 - ‘Starting Out’ – Professional Development Course, Yorkshire Art Space

 

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 ·         Yale Centre For British Art Collection

·         Yantai Art Museum. China

·         University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

·         Ruskin Collection, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

·         Priseman –Seabrook Collection http://www.priseman-seabrook.org/collections/highlights/

·         Newlight Art Collection -  http://newlight-art.org.uk/prize-exhibition/

·         Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Collection, Canada

·         Salford Museum and Art Gallery

·         University of Sheffield

 

ARTIST TALKS

·         Leeds Arts University, February 12th, 2020

·         Talk about solo show Out of Time at Huddersfield Art Gallery as part of Contemporary 

          British Painting Prize Launch, December 7th 2019

·         Sheffield Art Fund Group @Huddersfield Art Gallery as part of solo exhibition Out Of                  Time 12th December 2019

·         Harrogate U3A Group @Huddersfield Art Gallery as part of solo exhibition Out Of Time              5th November 2019

·         University of Huddersfield Creative Practice Students @Huddersfield Art Gallery as part            of solo exhibition Out Of Time 19th November 2019

·         Stone Lithography Talk – Leicester Print Workshop 2017

·         University of Nottingham Graduate Residency Talk 2016

·         John Moores Painting Prize Talk Tuesday 5th Nov 2016

·         John Moores Painting Prize Talk Tuesday 2014

·         Sheffield College Foundation Students Sept 2015

·         University of Nottingham Talk 2013

·         Hallam Art Group, Sheffield 2013

 

PUBLICATIONS/ MEDIA COVERAGE

Beyond Surface – Painting For Dark Times – Contemporary British Painting Prize and Mandy Payne – Out of Time – Review by Emma Bolland 20/12/19

https://corridor8.co.uk/article/beyond-surface-painting-for-dark-times/

 

Corridor 8 – 50 years of Preston Bus Station – Derek Horton – Oct 2019

https://corridor8.co.uk/article/beautiful-and-brutal-50-years-in-the-life-of-preston-bus-station/

 

Remnants of A Welfare State – Mandy Payne by Derek Horton- So Anyway Magazine

https://www.soanywaymagazine.org/issue-five

 

The Printmaking Ideas Book – Frances Stansfield and Lucy McGeown – my work features on pages 16-17 – ISBN 978-1-78157-618-2

 

The Contemporary British Painting Prize Group Show 2016 – ISBN 9781533460851

 

Contemporary Masters From Britain + ISBN 9781543281620

 

Observer/ Guardian Rising Stars 2017 -named as an artist to watch

https:// www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/01/rising-stars-2017-artist-aaron-angell

 

The Double Negative - Utopia Deferred? Paul Collinson and Mandy Payne On Depicting The Perfect World By C. James Fagan

http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2016/08/utopia-deferred-paul-collinson-mandy-payne-on-depicting-the-perfect-world/

 

‘Art Brut’ - Frieze  by Chris Sharratt (on line article)  https://www.frieze.com/article/art-brut

 

C20 - The magazine of the Twentieth Century Society – ‘Artist's View - Raw Beauty’– 2 page feature on my work- March 2016

 

John Moores Painting Prize Catalogue 2016 – ISBN – 978-1-902700-55-7

 

John Moores Painting Prize Catalogue 2014 – ISBN 978-1-902700-51-9

 

Big Issue North - Lighting The Way Feb 15-21

The Park Hill Paintings of Mandy Payne, Northern Soul, http://www.northernsoul.me.uk/sheffield-mandy-payne/

 

The Guild of St George  - The Companion (15) - The John Ruskin Prize Recording Britain Now

http://www.guildofstgeorge.org.uk/uploads/companion2015_online-with-links.pdf

 

Big Draw Recording Britain Now Artist Interview:  www.thebigdraw.org/recording-britain-now-artist-interview-mandy-payne

 

Norman Ackroyd Review of his personal highlights of the RA Summer Exhibition :  Features my work at the end of the 

clip http://www.live.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/lD6dwH784RCCwvLKG817bx/norman-ackroyd-viewthe-royal-academy-summer-exhibition

 

BBC4 Programme with Alexei Sayle on John Moores  BBC4 John Moores Painting Prize with Alexi Sayle

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ7D50b7a5Q   and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZSSQAyZOkI

 

Review in Guardian Guide (03/05/14) by Robert Clark Of Solo Exhibition at Tarpey Gallery  -

http://www.theguardian.com/.../03/this-weeks-new-exhibitions

 

Axis web article on John Moores Painting Prize - http://www.axisweb.org/features/news-and-views/in-focus/john-

moores-painting-prize-2014/

 

Artist Newsletter blog on John Moores Prize and my work  - https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/studio-75

 

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