The Inherent Magic of the Everyday

Spray paint & oil on glass fibre reinforced concrete
40cm x 40cm

Mandy Payne is a Sheffield based painter. Her work is inspired by urban landscape, particularly Brutalist architecture, social housing, and issues of gentrification. Interested in finding beauty in the overlooked and everyday, she works with materials that have a physical connection to the sites she depicts.

Selected group exhibitions include, John Moores Painting Prize, (2021, 2016, 2014 (Prize Winner)); Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, (selected 8 times); New Light Art Prize, 2023, 2020, 2017 and 2015 (First Prize Winner); Contemporary British Painting Prize, 2016 and Threadneedle Prize, 2013.

Solo exhibitions include: Huddersfield Art Gallery, (2019/20); Lakeside Arts Centre. Nottingham, (2018); Cupola Gallery, Sheffield (2016) Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington (2014).

Her work is held in public and private collections worldwide including Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth; Yale Centre For British Art; Jiangsu Art Museum China; The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada; The Ruskin Collection, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield; The University of Salford and University of Sheffield.

‘Art is a second career for me – I previously studied Dentistry and worked for 25 years in the NHS as a Community/ Hospital Dentist largely in Rotherham. Having always had a massive passion for art, I took many evening and part time art classes over the years before studying a HND and BA Fine Art part time and swapping careers in 2012.

This painting (The Inherent Magic of the Everyday) was made following one of my many lockdown walks around the suburbs of Sheffield.

Photo credit: Isy + Leigh Anderson (@isyandleigh)