Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part I

About

Mandy Payne is a Sheffield based artist whose work is inspired by urban landscape, particularly Brutalist architecture, social housing, and issues of gentrification. She usually works with materials that have a physical connection to the sites she depicts, namely concrete and spray paint. She originally trained as a dentist working for 25 years in the Community and Hospital NHS dental services before a career change 10 years ago to work as a full-time artist

Education

BA Fine Art (First Class) Nottingham University

2 year Fellowship in Stone Lithography at Leicester Print Workshop

Select Exhibitions/Awards

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

RA Summer Exhibition-Exhibited 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023

New Light Arts Prize 2015 (First Prize Winer), and exhibited 2017, 2020, 2023

Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Award 2017

Arts Council Of England Award, 2015 and 2019

Member of Contemporary British Painting Group

Work included in public and private collections worldwide including The Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth and The Yale Centre For British Art

Gallery Representation

Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester Ffin y Parc Gallery, Llandudno Darle and The Bear, Woodstock

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

The works submitted are studies I made on paper for larger concrete paintings. The first 3 (‘Aylesbury Abstraction I, II and III') focus on the Aylesbury Estate near Elephant and Castle which is currently undergoing demolition, the fourth card 'Honing In' is a detail from The National Theatre.

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