About the Artist

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Mandy Payne is a Sheffield (UK) based painter.  

Her work is inspired by the built environment, particularly Brutalist, Modernist architecture,
social housing, and issues of gentrification.  Interested in finding beauty in the overlooked and the everyday, she works with materials that have a physical connection to the sites she depicts, namely spray paint and concrete. 

She originally trained as a dentist, working in the NHS Hospital and Community Dental Services for 25 years before having a career change to work as a full-time artist.

She graduated with BFA from Nottingham University in 2013.  

Selected group exhibitions include:

ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, 2025 (Northern Artist Prize Winner),

John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, where she was a Prize winner in 2014 and then exhibited again in 2016 and 2020.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (Exhibited nine times)

New Light Art Prize, 2023, 2020, 2017 and 2015 (First Prize Winner)

Contemporary British Painting Prize, 2016
Threadneedle Prize, 2013.  

She is a member of the Contemporary British Painting Group. 

She has had eight solo exhibitions including: Stapleford Granary Arts Centre, (2025); Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester (2022); Manchester Modernist Society (2021); Huddersfield Art Gallery, (2019/20) and Lakeside Arts Centre. Nottingham, (2018). 

Her work is held in public and private collections worldwide, including Devonshire Collection,
Chatsworth; Yale Centre for British Art; Jiangsu Art Museum China; Elizabeth Greenshields
Foundation, Canada; The Ruskin Collection, Millennium Gallery,
Sheffield and The Universities of Salford and Sheffield. 

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