Mandy Payne

Mandy Payne is a painter based in Sheffield.
Her work is inspired by issues of gentrification, social housing, Modernist architecture and notions of utopias and dystopias. For the past 13 years her work has focused on Park Hill, the Grade II* listed Brutalist Sheffield council estate which has been undergoing regeneration. More recently she has turned her attention to similar sites and buildings in London, the North West and the North East. Her intention being to document the transience of the urban landscape and the loss of many of these mid-century buildings and their existing communities.
Facture, materiality and process are integral to her work and she uses materials that have a direct physical connection to her subject matter, namely concrete and spray paints.

Biography
Mandy Payne initially trained as a dentist working in the Community and Hospital Dental Services for 25 years . She studied Fine Art part time as a mature student whilst working in the NHS, graduating in 2013 with a BA from Nottingham University.
She has shown nationally and internationally in various group exhibitions, including the John Moores Painting Prize where she was a Prize Winner in 2014, and shortlisted again in 2016 and 2020. She was runner up in the John Ruskin Prize in 2014 and the recipient of the Valeria Sykes Award in the New Light Arts Prize in 2015.
Her work has been exhibited on nine occasions in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

She has had six solo exhibitions including the Angear Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre Nottingham (2018) and Huddersfield Art Gallery (2019/20).
Her work is held in public and private collections both in the UK and abroad.