PAYNE, TESSA
- Ground Composition, 2011 acrylic paint on paper
- Thyme Square Relica, 2011 acrylic paint on linen
- Tour, 2011 acrylic paint & pencil on paper
- Untitled, 2009 MDF, talcum powder, paper, collage, pin
- Profiler (mold) & Screen (design for interior), 2011 acrylic on linen & acrylic on notepaper
- Divider, 2011 acrylic on notepaper
Like an exercise in archival cataloguing source material is borrowed both arbitrarily and intentionally from second hand books, catalogues, photographs and the internet to form a diverse and complex visual language; from there the compilation of subjects go under examination for re-invention and re-sampling to form the initial foundations for the work.
Thumbing though the images, acts as a starting point, like personal referencing for broader ideas. Humble as this act may be, it allows the work and ideas to move fluidly from one piece to the next. Thus each singular work demonstrates a careful sorting of a broader totality, acting as one within an endless field of formal, theoretical, and subjective possibilities.
The filtering of images predominantly from the lexicon of Architecture, Nature and foreign landscapes, reveals recurring themes of ritualistic tendencies and cultural motifs. For example the rock arrangements in Japanese gardens symbolises not only an ancient tradition but also represents something altogether more spiritual, intrinsically bound with philosophical ideas, drawn from classical Chinese beliefs. Stone paths, once taken in to consideration, are as much an expression of traditional aesthetics as is the interior of an ancient shrine, or a colour block print. Thus, man’s interference with nature becomes tied up within a complex value system and cultural status.
Through the restaging of this imagery the everyday and the profound become entwined, suggesting a slippage between reality and imagination. Familiar subjects no longer appear as they seem and the mundane and inanimate are forcibly abstracted through the use of paint. Within the presentation of a somewhat altered scheme of nature, conventional distinctions between ‘natural’ and ‘man-made’ are disrupted.
Moving among media, from painting on linen to paper and clay, subjects and reference points reveal them selves through an impulsive, non-rationalized process. Formal qualities, being the primary focus and careful aesthetic decisions on space and composition work to communicate the pictorial and sculptural as intricately bound. A particular colour palette is used to elucidate aesthetic ideals – that of beauty and imperfection. Overall the intention is not to indoctrinate but rather intrigue, relying on the imagination of the viewer.
Tessa Payne
Ridley Road Studios
Dalston London E8
Born in London, 1982
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2001 - 2004 BA (Hons) Fine Art/Art History, Goldsmiths College
2000 - 2001 Art Foundation, Winchester School of Art
Exhibitions
FUTURE
Two in The Hand
Space Seven Gallery
02/12/2011 - 11/12/2011
www.spaceseven.co.uk
Three person show with Kate Mcleod & Iain S Hales
www.iainshales.com
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PAST
Salon Vert
Embassy @ The Roxy
Edinburgh
22/01/11 - 06/02/11
www.embassygallery.org
Showing alongside a selection of Embassy Gallery member artists
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Small is Beautiful XXVIII
Flowers Central
London
15/12/2010 - 08/01/2011
www.flowersgalleries.com
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Catalyst Arts Presents - The Embassy Salon Show
Catalyst Arts
Belfast
09/07/10 - 16/07/10
www.catalystarts.org.uk
Work selected by Catalyst Arts from the Embassy Gallery 'Salon' exhibition in Edinburgh
Morag Keil/ Tayto & Tayto/ Ewan Sinclair/ Alexa Hare/ Leigh Charlton/ Calvin Laing/ Peter Amoore/ Greg Fullerton & Tiffany Parbs/ Tessa Payne/ Claire Louise Davies/ Alan & Rose Holligan/ Marie Smith
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SALON: Embassy Members Show 2010
Embassy Gallery @ The Roxy
Edinburgh
23/01/10 - 07/02/10
www.embassygallery.org
Isabell Kamp, Mirja Koponen, Euan Gray, Maggie Mowbray, Lyndsay Mann, Karen Stentaford, Jane Mitchell, Duncan Campbell, Judith Rowan, Anneli Holmstrom, Donna Holford-Lovell, Alexa Hare, Kim W Wilson, Johan Thomson, Edwin Aitken, Chihiro Yuasa, Katherine Sola, Tom Nolan, Dickson Brown, Rachael Bibby, Arwen Duncan, Clare Fallon, Janie Nicoll, Thomas Aitchison, Kristian Smith, Ronnie Heeps, Alex Tobin, Graham Stewart, Callum Monteith, Dave Hanger, Marie Smith, Andrew Gannon, Catherine E Johnston, Leanne Hopper, Tessa Lynch, Sarojini Lewis, Leigh Chorlton, Claudio Pascale, Ewan Sinclair, Emma Reeves, Tiffany Parbs, Jessica Argo, Morag Keil, Stephanie Cairns, Greg Fullerton, Ewan Manson, Daniel Brown, Sam Kirkwood, Lindsay Boyd, Suzanne Delaney, Sophie Orton, Val McLean, Gerry Smith, Anna Bernard, Elaine Wilson, Sara Sinclair, Abi Lewis, Roween Suess, Joe Ryan, Gordon Simpson, Ruth Holmes, Emma E Boyd, Mido Lee, Calum Craik, Tessa Payne, Rowena Comrie, Steve Kirby, Tom Estes, Christine Morrison, Heather Di Marco, Luke Cooke-Yarborough, Claire Louise Davies, Frances Stacey, Rachael Adams, Nathalie Wilson, Kenny Watson, Alan Holligan, Anne Benson, Evelyn Morrison, Peter Amoore, Abigail Rebekah Barr, Tayto et Tayto, Catherine Payton, Rose Holligan, Michael Hanna, Sean Caherty, Helena Ohman McCardle, Carlos Noronha Fei, Calvin Laing, Adeline Bourret, Aaron Juarros
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Collage
Flowers East
London
11/09/09 - 10/10/09
www.flowersgalleries.com
Showing alongside artists Derek Boshier, Ian Breakwell and Eduardo Paolozzi amongst others
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ART SALE 09
Globe Gallery
Newcastle
10/7/09 - 8/8/09
www.globegallery.org
Eva Bauer / Oliver Beck / Lyndsey Best / Louise Bradley / Frank Briffa / Hannah Brown / Elly Clarke / James Crowther / Colin Davison / Edmund Francis / Esther G. Garcia / Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau / Yvette Hawkins / Lauren Healey / Laura Hebron / Adam Hogarth / Tessa Holland / Ruth Houston / Peter-Ashley Jackson / Daniel Jagger / Stephen Jaques / Adam Kissack / Hannah Mackay / Mikhak Mirmahmoudi / Sebastian Muscio / Tessa Payne / Victoria Proudfoot / Amanda Raby / Claire Rousell / Helen Schell / Andy Slater / Joseph Steele / Pauline Thomas / Maggie Walker / Roxy Walsh / Harry Watton / David Webb / Sarah West / Sarah Woodburn / Mick Wootton
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The End is the Beginning is the End
Central Gallery
University of Reading
23/2/09 - 13/3/09
Gareth Bell-Jones/Ian Breakwell/Nicholas Byrne/Henri Chopin/William Daniels/Lila De-Magalhaes/Babak Ghazi/Dave Hanger/Katie Orton/Kate Owens/Tessa Payne/Rachel Price/Paul Radburn/Amikam Toren/Markus Vater
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Cut & Paste
Wings Projects Art Space
Geneva, Switzerland
27/4/07 - 24/6/07
wingsprojects.net
Two person show with London based painter Guy Shoham
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20 Hoxton Square
Hoxton, London
27/4/07 - 5/6/07
www.20projects.co.uk
Adam Bricusse/Andrea Byrne/Ana Drummond/Anne Morris/Arturo Zavala Haag/Aubrey Haskard/Can Sayinli & Jorgen Evil Ekvoll/Dave Hanger/Freya Wood/Gareth Cadwallader/Greg Morris/Henry John/Henry Hudson/Hugo Dalton/Jemima Kirke/Kate Mcleod/Lawrence Owen/Liesel Thomas/Lola Hobbs/Lucy Cavendish/Nick Roberts/Marco Perego/Marissa Roth/Nigel Waymouth/Olympia Scarry/Phillipa Hyman/Sanem Salek/Seb Humphrys/Tessa Payne
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The Ritual Works
Flea Pit, London
28/08/06 - 24/09/06
One person show
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