Patsy Payne, BSc (ANU), Grad Dip (SCA), BVA (SCA), BA (USyd) is an Emeritus Fellow of the Australian National University (ANU). She studied archaeology at Sydney University before completing a Visual Arts degree at Sydney College of the Arts and later a Bachelor of Science at ANU. Payne has delivered workshops and lectures nationally and internationally at institutions including the National Art School Sydney, Hochschule der Kunste Bern and Silpakorn University Bangkok. She has undertaken a number of residencies and exhibitions in Asia, with particularly fruitful engagements with art cultures in Thailand, China and Sri Lanka.

Payne’s practice incorporates drawing, printmaking, sculpture and tapestry weaving. The history of anatomical illustration and the collaborations and occasional collisions between science and art have provided a conceptual foundation. Systems of medicine in Asia, particularly Chinese and Indian diagrammatic representations of body systems have provided a means of addressing embodied experience, cultural dislocation and questions of how technology writes and reads us, moulds, models and mediates existence, and how our bodies are imaged/ imagined through science.

Payne’s works have been included in many curated international exhibitions including By Hand: Rediscovering the art of Printmaking, School of Design and Arts De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, Manila Philippines (2018), 8^th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro, Portugal (2016) and Progressive Proof, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery (2014) Her practice has been cited in numerous publications including Love Lace Catalogue, Lindy Ward, Powerhouse Museum (2011) Beth Grabowski and Bill Fick, Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Processes, Pearson Education (2009) and Helen Gyger, On the Impossibility of representing a Mountain, catalogue essay for Range (2007).

Her work is held in collections nationally and internationally including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, the Australian National Library, the Frans Masereel Centre Archive, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp St Laurence University, Canton, New York and Boston University, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.