Penelope Payne, born in Singapore, in 1968 she grew up in Lincolnshire and graduated Newcastle University Fine Art Dept in 1992. She has shown work repeatedly at Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Cheesburn Sculpture Garden, London Q Park and Collateral Venice 2019.

From her studio in Cullercoats, on the North East Coast, Payne, creates sculptural, site-specific installation pieces and performative work. She is thematically concerned with female narratives, with a focus on unrecorded histories within the lives of working women.

Her newest body of work, uses the compelling images of Winslow Homer to consider the lives of the Cullercoats fisherwomen.Through the medium of salt, tar and cloth she has created a series with a quiet, layered materiality. By using everyday material, Payne toys with ideas of time and piece-work to emphasise the quotidian.

www.penelopepayne.co.uk
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