Sally Payen Resume
Dr Sally Payen based in the West Midlands, UK
Born Oxford UK; PhD University of Brighton, UK, 2005; MA Royal College of Arts, Painting, 1990; BA Hons, Frist Class, Painting, Brighton Polytechnic, 1988
Solo Exhibitions
2023 We Foragers Unquiet, Winterbourne House, Birmingham, UK
2021 Uprising, The Art House, Worcester, UK
2017 The Fence and the Shadow, MAC Birmingham, UK
2013 The Chase and the Ambush, Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2012 Wolverhampton Riots - One Year On, Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2010 Forever Run, Galleria Gallerati, Rome, Italy
2009 Sally Payen – Shingle22, Forte Sangello Art Gallery and Museum, Netunno Rome, Italy
2009 Land Grab, Bryant Priest Newman, Birmingham, UK
2004 Never Ending Journey, Brighton University Gallery, UK
1997 Artist in residence exhibition, Hastings Museum, UK
1997 Charmed Bodies, Cultures Gallery, Brighton Museum, Brighton, UK
1996 Vessel, Gillingham Museum and Art Gallery, Kent, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024/5 Earthbound, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
2024 JMW Turner and changing visions of Landscape, Norwich Castle, Norwich, UK
2023 Watermark, Meadow Arts & Worcester Art Gallery & Museum, Worcester, UK
2022 Beep Painting Biennial, Swansea, UK
2022 Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
2022 Territory, Sluice and Pada Studios, Barreiro, Lisbon
2022 Ice in a Sustainable World, exhibition & symposium, Bilbao, Spain
2020 Mycorrhiza, AMP Gallery, London, UK
2020 Eden, Edgar St, Worcester, UK
2019 Salt Road, Manchester Contemporary, Manchester, UK
2019 Buffer Zones, Division of Labour, Paradise Works, Manchester, UK
2019 P is for Portrait, Division of Labour, The Art House, Worcester, UK
2019 Lab Rats, Greenhill Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 Sluice Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
2018 Taking Up Space, Government Art Collection, London, UK
2016 Oriel Davies Open, Oriel Davies, Wales, UK
2015 Salon, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2015 Division of Labour, Manchester Contemporary, Manchester, UK
2015 Hacking the Archive, Senate House, London, UK
2014 Outrider, Woolhope Room, Hereford, Commandery, Worcester, UK
2014/15 West Midlands Open, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2014 ART14 London with Division of Labour and Star Gallery China, UK
2013 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
2013 Open, Worcester Museum & Art Gallery, Worcester, UK
2013 Open, Ludlow Museum, Ludlow, UK
2012 Society Weeks, Worcester City Gallery, Worcester, UK
2012 Joint Stock, Birmingham, UK
2012 John & Sally, Division of Labour, Malvern, UK
2011 Some Domestic Incident, MAC Birmingham, UK
2011 Prague Biennale 5 Expanded painting, Microna, Prague
2011 The Witching Hour, PM Gallery and House, London, UK
2010 The Witching Hour, Waterhall, Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum, UK
2009 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair Miami, Ice Palace, USA
2009 DOK/Video Fest, Kassel, Germany
2009 FREEROTATION, Hay-on-Wye, UK
2009 Static3, Franklin House, Hereford Photography Festival, UK
2009 War on War, Shringle 22J, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
2008 West Midlands Open, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
2007 Birmingham Open, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2006 Borderlines, Hereford, UK
2005 Open, Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, Hereford, UK
2005 Haven, Rotherwas Chapel, Hereford, UK
2001 Open Studios, Red Herring, Brighton, UK
2000 Group show, Brighton Open House, Brighton, UK
2000 Artists Choice, Flowers East, London, UK
2000 Peterborough Prize, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough, UK
2000 Art Futures, London International Art Fair, London, UK
2000 South East Arts Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
2000 South East Arts Collection, Brighton University Gallery, Brighton, UK
1994 South East Arts Purchase Prize and exhibition, first prize, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, UK
1990 Royal College of Arts, MA Exhibition, London, UK
Recent Commissions
2024 Earthbound - a series of 6 new watercolours, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2024 Wall paintings, permanent display, Dolphin House, Ward End Park, Birmingham, UK
2022 A series of 7 watercolours on the theme of melting ice for Ice in a Sustainable World, Symposium, Bilbao, Spain
2021 Large scale mural for permanent display of Thinktank, Science Museum, Birmingham, UK
2017 Series of newly commissioned paintings exploring Greenham Common peace camp, The Fence and the Shadow, Arts Council Funded, The MAC, Birmingham
2013 Series of newly commissioned paintings Wolverhampton Riots, Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery
2008 commissioned essay for Longhouse, West Midlands
2006 commissioned research for Longhouse, West Midlands
Recent Residency
2025 Artist in residency, New Inn Brilley, Hay-on-Wye Wales, UK
2024 Brockhampton, National Trust, Tenbury Wells, UK
2023 Croft Castle, National Trust, Herefordshire, UK
2022 Pada Studios, Lisburn, Portugal
2020 Dinmore Hill, Hereford, UK
2019 Winterbourne House and Garden, Birmingham, UK
2016/7 Greenham Common, Newbury, UK
2012 Pitt Project Space, Worcester, UK
1996 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, UK
Awards and Grants
2024 Social Movement Coach Award for painting and the Changing Planet
2022 Purchase Prize for Twenty Twenty collection, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2016-17 Arts Council England, The Fence and the Shadow, including new publication
2012 Prize winner, for painting, Rome Biennial, Artists Against War, Italy
2007-8 Creative Industry Mentor Award, working with Matt Price for new paintings The Falling
2002 PhD research award, Woman’s Federation of Education, Brighton University
1997-2002, PhD Research Award, Brighton University
1996 Purchase Prize for Painting, South East Arts Award, UK
1988 Jacob Mendolsolm Award for Painting, UK
1987 Annabel Birtles Award for Painting, UK
Public Collections
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, New Art Gallery Walsall, Government Art Collection, The Towner Collection, Royal College of Art, The John Feeny Collection, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum, Annabel Birtles Collection, Minerva Collection, Jacob Mendolsolm Collection, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Royal Sussex County Hospital
Publications
2024 JMW Turner and Changing Visions of Landscape, Francesca Vance, Norfolk Museums
2023 Annals of Glaciology, Ice in a Sustainable Society
2021 Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists, edited by Brenda Schmamann
2018 The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting
2017 The Fence and the shadow, Matt Price, Mandy Fowler
2010 The Witching Hour, Freya Smaill
2010 Art of Ideas, edited by Matt Price
2008 The Space between Practice, Longhouse, Birmingham
2006 MADE, Publication Youth Space
2006 Longhouse, Birmingham People, Identity and Place
2001 Academic Anthropology and the Museum, Mary Bouquet
2000 Body Image, Mid Sussex District Council
1997 Charmed Bodies, Michael Tucker
Recent work with Salt Road – All Projects lasts about 1 year with multiple partners, funded by Arts Council England and others; I am co director and curator. I create the core project ideas, work as relational artist and mentor early career artists. www.saltroad.org.uk
2025 The Watercourse Way
2024 We Foragers Unquiet
2023 Sign of the Underground
2021-2 Traders Tracks
2016 Outrider
Recent Visiting Lecturer, Panels and Presentations
Hereford School of Arts, Worcester Art College, Meadow Arts - Arts and Climate Change Panel, Norwich Art Society – invited artist speaker, Women and Conflict Conference - MAC Birmingham, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum, Presencing the Heating Skies – University of Birmingham, Earthbound – New Art Gallery Walsall, Ice in a Sustainable Society Symposium panel, Bilbao, University of Brighton, Trinty St David’s University.
Current Membership of
Basque Centre for Climate Change’s ARSTCIENCE
Culture Decares Emergency
Artists Union
The Great Imagining
