Lot 25 - Dr Sally Payen – Underground Networks 2

Watercolour on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Raising proceeds for Insulate Ukraine

About  

Born in Oxford UK, 1964. Payen attended Brighton Polytechnic (now Brighton University) for her painting degree, she attended the painting school of the RCA when it was housed in the V&A and her understandings became shaped by modernism and frequent visits to the Indian paintings in the V&A. Payen completed a doctorate at Brighton University in 2005 exploring ideas about time, space and embodiment in painting, supervised by Professor Michael Tucker, she remains influenced in equal parts by the western philosophy of Lyotard and eastern metaphysical views. 

Currently residing between the Welsh Borders and West Midlands, UK. Her studio is in a grade listed timber framed building over 400 years old.  Payen is a prize-winning artist - Rome Biennial, Artists Against War, 2012, The South East Arts Purchase prize for Painting 1996, The Jacob Mendolsolm Award for Painting and the Annabel Birtles Award for Painting. Her work is held in many public funded collections including, The Government Art Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall, Wolverhampton City Art Gallery and many more. She has taken part in many opens and art fairs.  

Education  

2005 

PhD University of Brighton  

1990 

MA Painting Royal College of Arts  

1988 

BA Brighton Polytechnic 

Solo Exhibitions 

2017   

The Fence and the Shadow, MAC Birmingham, UK 

Group Exhibitions 

2024 

Earthbound, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK 

(Upcoming) JMW Turner and changing visions of landscape, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich, UK 

2023 

Watermark, Meadow Arts, Worcester Art Museum, UK 

2022  

Territory, Slice & PADA Studios, Lisbon art week, Lisbon, Portugal 

Ice in a Sustainable Society, Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbao, Spain 

The West Midlands Open, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK 

The TwentyTwenty Collection, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK 

2020  

Mycorrhiza, AMP Gallery, Peckham, London, UK 

Eden, Edgar St, Worcester, UK 

2019  

Salt Road, Manchester Contemporary, UK 

Buffer Zones, Division of Labour, Paradise Works, Manchester, UK 

P is for Portrait, Division of Labour, The Art House, University of Worcester, UK 

Lab Rats, Greenhill Gallery, Berlin, Germany 

2018  

Sluice Art Fair, Berlin, Germany 

Taking up Space, Government Art Collection, London, UK 

Gallery Representation 

Salt Road 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 

“This work is about botany and how plants and seeds can move; by wind, birds, insects or humans - and is reflective of migration and the feeling of floating and moving through landscape.  I am thinking of the seed as a seed of an idea that can plant and grow in human minds as well as literal seeds. I find Heidegger's Dasein currently really inspiring which means there-being and being-there, so is suggesting our being in nature, to experience nature vividly. This also links in activism as in the protection of nature and has a celestial feel. I am also interested in cosmoplilia - how in macro/micro views things can seem similar.”