A little about me and my history in visual art world

 IRENE / PAULA PAYNE  January 2010      

           

ADDRESS          17/84 Norman Crescent

                                Norman Park 4170

                                Ph 07 31614812/  0431036864 

                             email irenejalopayne@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

2009                       Certificate 4 Training and Assessment Southbank Institute

2001                       Certificate 4 Workplace Assessment Southbank TAFE

2000                       Masters Visual Arts Q.C.A. Griffith University

1998                       Cert 3 Workplace Assessment Southbank TAFE

1992                       CN404 Instructional Skills Southbank TAFE

Honours Degree Visual Arts  Q.C.A.

1991                        B.A. Visual Art  Q.C.A. Griffith University

EMPLOYMENT Project Management / curator

2008/9/10             Project manager/ curator Southbank Institute

2007 Nov              Project manager, Cabaret Southbank Piazza

2007 Oct               Co- curator/ project manager, Process/Journey Australian Embassy Beijing

                      Co- curator/ project manager Process/Journey Red Gate Gallery Beijing

2007 May             Co-editor  Lhasa, New Art From Tibet/ Red Gate 798 Beijing

2007 March          Curator/project manager, Charcoal Interiors  Preview Panorama Exhibition

2007 April           Curator/ project manager, National Taiwan Arts University,  Panorama Exhibition

2007 April             Delivered seminar to DFAT in Taipei titled, Art in alternate and public spaces.

2002/2006            Festivals and events, project management

                                Artist in residence, Woodford festival fire event from 2001 to 2006

                                Riverfest, Vulcana Womens Circus (stage design project)

2004                       Art Built In Southbank Parklands; public Art Project, Southbank Institute

2001                       Events Managment; Emerging Artists Exhibition, Brisbane City Council

2001 November   Exhibition Coordinator Griffith University Q.C.A.

2001 October       External Assessor  Griffith University Q.C.A.

1995/ 2010           Teacher:  Southbank Institute

                                subjects include; drawing, contemporary

                             and traditional painting , installation

                             and three dimensional studies,

concept development, art history.

 1999/2000           Environmental Artist Brisbane City Council

                            Grants and Residency

2009 July              Red Gate Gallery Beijing China Artist In Residence

2007 October      DFAT Grant to support traveling exhibition Process/Journey

2007 September  Australia China Council Grant to support launch of Process/Journey

2007 June             Financial backing supplied by Australian Embassy Beijing

2006 May            Residency Taipei Artists Village

2006  March        Residency  Beijing studio Australia China Council

                          Publications

www.nyartsbeijing.cn part of NYARTS magazine for Jayne Dyer article

Art Monthly Australia - Nov. art notes

C Arts, Asia Contemporary Art and Culture, Launch Edition, www.c-artsmag.com out of Indonesia

Art in Asia, Nov-Dec, 2007, new art magazine out of Korea Current Exhibitions China

www.theage.com.au, Influential theatre acts win plenty of friends in China, Xenia Hanusiak. Nov 8 2007

Paula Payne, process journey.blogspot.com

www.english.cri.cn  China Radio International did a great interview with Jayne.Li Gang and I on 29/10/2007

    

              Paula Payne   EXHIBITIONS

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009/10 Dec         Illuminata Project ,Visual Arts Department Woodford Festival

2009 June             Made in China, site specific installation

2007 August         Reflections Through the Looking Glass, Tribune St Gallery Southbank

2005                       Retrospective’ Southbank Library

2003                       Bloodline’ Gallery 482 Newfarm

2002                       Singing out of Tune’ Gallery 482 Newfarm

2000                                   Still Lives’ Gallery 482  Newfarm, Brisbane

1999                          Recent Works’ Smith and Stonley  on Stratton

1996                                   Ode to Pandora” Institute of Modern Art

 Temporal Region’ Doggett st Studios

1995                                   Blade/Blade’ Griffith University Gallery

1996                                   

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009                       Illuminata Woodford Festival Installation

2008                       June to September  From Mao to Now The Armory, Sydney Olympic Park Newington Sydney.

2007March            Panorama, Charcoal Interiors Fortitude Valley

2007 April             Panorama, National Taiwan Arts University Taipei, Taiwan

2005                       Art Spectacular Riverside Centre

2001                       Place Displace’ Griffith University Q.C.A.

2000                         Post Graduate’ Griffith University Q.C.A

1999                         Gar Morumba’ Brisbane City Gallery

Mannerisim’ Smith and Stonley on Stratton

                                Small works in Series’ Southbank TAFE

                                Body Panel’ Southbank TAFE

Grounding’ Smith and Stonley on Stratton

1998                     Toowoomba  bienial

Black’ Soapbox Gallery

                             XX’ Metro Arts

Good Grief’ Institute of Modern Art

1997                         The Book Show’ Brisbane City Gallery

               Aluminum exhibition’ Griffith University’

1995                       Claiming Turf Claiming Territory’ I.M.A

PUBLIC  ART PROJECTS

2001                       Noosa  Bicentenial River Festival (large floating sculpture)

1999                       Boondal Wetlands’ environmental art Brisbane City Council

1998                       Woodford Festival  “Reconciliation Sculpture”                   ‘

1998                       Resurface of Southbank’  Southbank Parklands (large installation           

REFEREE

Professor Patricia Hoffie   

Queensland College of Art

Griffith University

Ph 33993512                                       

                                                                               

Queensland                                                   

Australia                         

                                                                               

Paula Payne     Artists Statement

During the development of my artistic practice I have worked with a variety of media and techniques to create bodies of work that reflect upon the depths of my thoughts and emotions.

I have maintained a diverse practice working within the gallery system as a painter and  installation artist, whilst developing networks that also include working within festivals and events producing costumes for performances and large ephemeral sculptures. In recent times I have been curating exhibitions locally and internationally.

I believe that it is important to be involved with, and develop new audiences,

My life has been a journey, in a physical sense. From an early age my family traveled back and forth by ship to Europe. My love of travel has continued into adulthood living at various times in Italy, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and more recently China and Taiwan.

In the production of artworks, the journey is more conceptual I gleam from my travels and environment, patterns, motifs, and experiences that are reinvented either through object, mark or substance to present ideas that focus on how genetic histories are intertwined in a complex system that goes back to ancient links to the first humans and what it is to be human.

Throughout my work and life, I have chosen to highlight and promote the connections between humans rather than the differences. This sense of commonality is all to easily lost in a world torn apart by social, ethical, religious, political and environmental rivalries and my art practice is an attempt, however modest to bring us back to the verities of our humanity.