Artist

Riley Payne / Australia


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Australia born 1979, works in United States 2015–

Riley Payne’s meticulous photorealist drawings tease out new connections between disparate but instantly recognisable pictorial elements. By re-rendering existing photographic imagery through a labour-intensive drawing process, he attempts to stem the tide of visual information that assaults us daily. Enigmatic and open-ended, Payne’s drawings encourage new relationships between language and image that are achieved through the use of humour, subversion and recontextualisation.

BIO

In 2011 Payne was a finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award, and in 2014 he held a residency at Artspace, Sydney. Payne has held six solo exhibitions since 2008; most recently his exhibition Serenader at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne in 2016. Since 2015 Payne has lived and worked in New York.

Supported by the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists.