Mandy Payne

About the Artist

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Mandy Payne lives and works in Sheffield, U.K. She originally trained as a dentist, working in the Hospital and Community Dental Services before having a career change to work as a full-time artist. She graduated with BA Fine Art from Nottingham University in 2013. Since then, she has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally.

Mandy  has been shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize on three occasions in 2014, where she was a prize winner and again in 2016 and 2020. She won the New Light Arts Prize in 2015 and was runner up in the John Ruskin Prize in 2016. Other selected group exhibitions include the RA Summer Exhibition where she has shown on 9 occasions (2014 -2019, 2022-2024), Wells Contemporary in  2021, ‘The Castlegate Prize’, in 2020 and the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2016. 

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Mandy has had eight solo exhibitions including: Angear Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre Nottingham (2018); Huddersfield Art Gallery (2019) and Manchester Modernist Society (2021), Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester (2022) and Art At Home, London (2024). She is a member of the Contemporary British Painting group.

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Between 2015 and 2017, she completed a completed a two-year Fellowship in stone lithography at Leicester Print Workshop for which she received Arts Council of England funding and an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. 

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Mandy's work is held in a number of public and private collections including The Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, The Yale Centre For British Art; Yantai Art Museum, China; University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China; Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada; Priseman-Seabrook Collection, U.K;  Ruskin Collection, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield; University of Salford Art Collection and the New Light Art Collection, U.K.

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Mandy works in both paint and print exploring the urban environment and everyday scenes. She is interested in issues of gentrification, social housing, and Brutalist architecture as a symbol of the contradictions of utopian and dystopian worlds.

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For her paintings, she works with materials that have a direct connection to the sites she depicts, namely concrete and spray paint and occasionally marble, referencing the perceived inequalities of different building materials.

She seeks to document buildings that will soon be lost, finding beauty, visual interest and celebration in the everyday, the overlooked and the ordinary.