About

​Patsy Payne was born in Hammersmith, London, UK (1955). Her practice incorporates drawing, print, sculpture and tapestry weaving. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Education and Archaeology), University of Sydney (1976), a Postgraduate Diploma (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts (1983) and a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Studies) Australian National University (2005). Since 1983 Patsy has had many solo exhibitions

in Australia, Switzerland and Thailand. Her work has been included in curated exhibitions in museums in Australia and internationally including Progressive Proof, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, USA (2014), Awagami and Print Expression 2012 – Mixed Media with Digital Printing, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2012), Lovelace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (2011), Finding Form: Disrupting Space/Creating Space, UWS Gallery, University of Western Sydney (2010), Print – Internationale Grafiktriennale Krakau- Oldenberg-Wien, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Austria (2007), Inklandia; contemporary prints, Purdue University Gallery, Indianapolis USA (2006), International Print Triennale MTG-2006, Krakow and Vienna, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki (2006), Busan International Print Art Festival, Busan, Korea (2005), Sublime Present International Aspects of Contemporary Art and Education, Musashino Art University, Tokyo (2004). Patsy has participated in international residencies at the Fine Arts Faculty, Hochschule der Kunste, Bern (2010), Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok (2008) The Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol (2008) Asialink Residency, Lunuganga Sri Lanka (2004) Schloss Haldenstein, Canton Graubunden, Switzerland (2001) Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium (1998). Patsy’s work is held in numerous public collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian National Gallery, Australian National Library, Queensland State Library, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Frans Masereel Centre Archive, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium, International Print Triennial Collection, Krakow, Poland, Stiftung Schloss Haldenstein, Switzerland, Purdue University Collection, Indiana, Southern Graphics Council Archive, USA, St Laurence University, Canton, New York. Her work has been cited in a number of publications including Roger Butler Printed Images by Australian Artists 1942 – 2020 (NGA 2021), Love Lace Catalogue, Lindy Ward, Powerhouse Museum (2011) Beth Grabowski and Bill Fick, Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Processes, Pearson Education (2009) and Helen Gyger, On the Impossibility of representing a Mountain, catalogue essay for Range (2007). Patsy works in her studio full-time since retiring as Head of Print and Drawing at the Australian National University, School of Art and Design at the end of 2013.