Liz Payne

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.

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, wool and textiles from a young age. 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, evident in some of Liz’s large scale embroidered artworks, of which can take months to complete. 

2023
Hazlehurst Art on Paper Award 2023 (upcoming 16 Sept - 12 Nov)
'Materials with Meaning' group exhibition, 'UNtangled necklaces', JamFactory, Adelaide, SA (20 July - 20 Aug)
'Exuberance' group exhibition, 'Wheels Keep on Turnin', Canberra Craft + Design, ACT (6 July - 26 August)
Wearable Art Mandurah 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