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BIO
Liz Payne is an artist living and working in the inner city of Sydney, Australia. Using a variety of media including paint, textiles, beads and embroidery, Liz’s work explores abstraction through colour, shape, texture and form. A question of perception and expectation is a considered component in Liz’s work, explored not only through her choices of materials and medium she uses but the expectations of life and the traditions of the every day, and there is always a pursuit of breaking the rules from the predicable and conventional.
Commonly exploring themes of identity, connection and colour theory with bold kaleidoscopic colours and patterns, Liz is inspired by botanical, astrological and topographic elements seen repeated in nature in particular the elements comprising all matter that surrounds us, that transcends time, geography, unifies cultures and forms part of a universal language that is beyond the spoken word.
Liz’s colourful aesthetic evolved through her strong background in visual arts, design, and years of honing in on her craft. Liz holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree from the University of Western Sydney, a Certificate IV in Graphic Design from Shillington College (followed by a career working as a designer across numerous international magazine publications) and a background growing up experimenting with stitch, fabric and textiles. It is this accumulation of different practices that makes Liz’s work break the stereotypes of craft, and there is always a pursuit of breaking the rules of expectation.
Liz’s work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Australia including Heide Museum of Modern Art, Wangaratta Art Gallery and Bondi Pavilion. Recently, Liz has been selected as a finalist in The Blake Art Prize, The Alice Prize, Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, the Waverly Art Prize and the Fishers Ghost Art Award.
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A W A R D S & A C H I E V E M E N T S
FINALIST The Blake Art Prize You Gotta Have Faith 2024
FINALIST 2024 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize Wheels Keep on Turning
FINALIST Alice Prize 2024 I Will Survive
FINALIST Hazlehurst Art on Paper Award 2023 I Will Survive
FINALIST Fishers Ghost Art Award 2022 Piece by Piece
FINALIST Waverly Art Prize 2022 All Signs Point to Yes
FINALIST Fishers Ghost Art Award for Eye on You chair 2021
FINALIST Reimagine Art Prize for Hanging by a Thread 2021
FINALIST Bowral Sculpture Prize for Tangled 2021
HIGHLY COMMENDED Little Things Art Prize at Saint Cloche Gallery for Escapism 2017
Collaboration with GORMAN CLOTHING for the AUTUMN '17 Collection
Collaboration with GORMAN CLOTHING for the Winter '19 10 years Collaboration Collection
WINNER Etsy Design Award (Art, Illustration, Papergoods category) Not Afraid 2015
FINALIST Wangaratta Textile Award It's What's on the Inside that Counts 2015
FINALIST Cambridge Street Gallery 'Who is Looking at You? Portrait Prize', Self Portrait Looking at Door 2015
HIGHLY COMMENDED Belle Arti Prize Eyem 2014
FINALIST Craft NSW Emerging Artist Craft Award Embody 2014
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E D U C A T I O N
Certificate IV in Computer Graphic Design, Shillington College, Sydney 2003
Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of Western Sydney, Sydney 1999 - 2002
High School Certificate, Meriden School, Sydney 1998
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E X H I B I T I O N S​
​2024
The Blake Art Prize 2024 (11 May - 7 July)
2024 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize (10 May - 26 May)
Barnardos Fearlessly Optimistic Art Show charity auction at National Art School (16 May)
The Alice Prize 2024 (22 March - 12 May)
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2023
The Other Art Fair (October 12-15)
Hazlehurst Art on Paper Award 2023 (16 Sept - 12 Nov)
Materials with Meaning group exhibition, UNtangled, JamFactory, Adelaide, SA (20 July - 20 Aug)
Exuberance group exhibition, Wheels Keep on Turning, Canberra Craft + Design, ACT (6 July - 26 August)
Wearable Art Mandurah the Exhibition, CASM gallery, WA (18 February – 2 April)
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2022
Fishers Ghost Art Award exhibition, Piece by Piece, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
Waverly Art Prize, All Signs Point to Yes, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, NSW
Wearable Art Mandurah Showcase, WA
Petite Miniature Textiles 2022, Light Within, Wangaratta Art Gallery, VIC
North Sydney Art Prize 2022 Hanging By A Thread, NSW
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2021
Fishers Ghost Art Award exhibition, Eye on You Chair Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
Remagine Art Prize finalist, Hanging By A Thread, Hornsby, NSW
Bowral Art Gallery Sculpture Prize finalist, Tangled, Bowral, NSW
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2020-2021
Isolate Make: Creative Resilience in a Pandemic group exhibition at The Australian Design Centre, Sydney as part of Sydney Festival
2019
Gorman: 10 Years of Collaboration Celebration exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
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2018
The End.... Again group exhibition, Newcastle
Fenton & Fenton Peace of Art exhibition, Melbourne
Stitch Cult group exhibition, Artisan QLD, Brisbane
Entwine group exhibition at NSVA Gallery, Northbridge, Sydney
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2017
Balmain Art & Craft Show, Balmain, Sydney
Visible Light group exhibition at Sheffer Gallery, Darlington, Sydney
Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
Sydney Children's Hospital Pattern & Colour spring exhibition, Sydney
Thread + Colour 2, William Street Gallery Paddington, Sydney
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2016
Fenton & Fenton Peace of Art Exhibition, Melbourne
Balmain Art & Craft Show Balmain, Sydney
Artist Open House Fremantle, WA
The Other Art Fair, Sydney
Thread + Colour, William Street Gallery Paddington, Sydney
2015
The Other Art Fair, Sydney
Hands group exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Create - Friends of the Australian Ballet Bloche Point shoe exhibition, Melbourne
Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Melbourne (Finalist)
Strike Away exhibition, San Francisco
Who is Looking at You? Portrait Prize, Cambridge Street Gallery, Melbourne (Finalist)
Supergraph, Melbourne
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2014
Belle Arti Prize, Melbourne (Highly Commended)
Fenton & Fenton Peace of Art exhibition, Melbourne
Craft NSW Emerging Artist Craft Award, Sydney (Finalist)
RAW group exhibition, Sydney
Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award, Brisbane (Online Finalist)
Supergraph, Melbourne
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2013-12
Brunswick Street Gallery 40 x 40 exhibitions, Melbourne