Spray paint & oil on marble
22cm x 27cm
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 (Threshold) is part of a series of work over 5 years exploring the demolition and gentrification of the Aylesbury Estate in London. I try to use materials that have a direct connection to the sites I am depicting, so have used spray paint (referencing graffiti on the estate) and worked on marble, referencing the perceived inequalities of rival building materials.
Photo credit: Isy + Leigh Anderson (@isyandleigh)