Printmaker, pencil and charcoal artist and teacher, completed a BA (Archaeology and Education) at Sydney University in 1973-76, then BA in Printmaking (1978-81) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking (1982-83) at Sydney College of the Arts. Her many solo exhibitions began in 1983 at the Upstairs Gallery, SCA; in 2001 she had another large solo show there. In 1985 she had a solo exhibition of her prints and drawings at Union Street Gallery, Sydney. Between 1982 and 1987 she exhibited in numerous group and prize shows (mainly prints) in Victoria, Fremantle, Barcelona and Sydney (including group shows at Hogarth Gallery in 1986 and 1987). In 1987, with Corinne Fletcher and Shelagh Morgan, Payne contributed 43 drawings to a travelling exhibition about female space as shelter mounted by Lismore Art Gallery, Genii loci: a spirit of place ; the catalogue included essays by Julie Ewington and Anna Rubbo.
Payne has also been exhibiting regularly with aGOG and its successor the Helen Maxwell Gallery; Joan Kerr opened her solo exhibition at the latter in 2001. Her series Murmur 1-8 shown at aGOG in October-November 1994 consisted of woodcuts and a 20-page book with 9 wood engravings and a photo-etched text. She also does lithographs in collaboration with the master printer Fred Genis, e.g. Weaving Dreams 1995, lithograph (burgundy colour), AGNSW, and large semi-abstract charcoal, pencil and pastel drawings, often evoking a woman’s body shape and including personal, semi-surreal images about herself, e.g. Cities of the Interior shows her with symbols of medical technology. Her series Thinking about Leaving (aGOG, 1992) was inspired by a Stevie Smith poem.
Payne taught at SCA in the early 1990s and has been Head of the Print Workshop at Canberra School of Art, ANU since 1995.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
