Malcolm PAYNE (b. 1947)
Fright
2004
archival pigment
edition 1/9
100 x 133 cm
Stella
1974
archival pigment
edition 5/10
100 x 133 cm
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Pretoria, Malcolm Payne attended Pretoria Boys High (1957–1964), where he was taught by Larry Scully and Walter Battiss.
He graduated with a National Teachers Diploma in Fine Art from the Pretoria College for Advanced Technical Education (now the Tshwane University of Technology). He then went on to study Sculpture and Mixed Media under Anthony Caro and Phillip King at the St. Martin’s School of Art in London. He gained an MFA with distinction at the University of Cape Town.
Payne lectured in Graphic Art and Sculpture at the Witwatersrand Technical College (1972 – 1975) and at the University of the Witwatersrand (1977 – 1979). He also lectured in Painting and Videography at the Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town (1989 to 2009).
He designed the sets for Athol Fugard’s plays Boesman and Lena (1971) and A Lesson from Aloes (1979).
He works with a broad array of media – ranging from plastics, metals, or trinkets of everyday life – to make paintings, drawings and sculptures. He also works in video.
Payne was elected as Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year in 1984. He was the recipient of the New Signatures Competition of the South African Association of Arts in Pretoria (1968) and the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Award (1997).
In 1995, he participated in the Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition. In 1997, he exhibited a video of his work (produced between 1994 and 2002) at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale .
Payne participated in the exhibition Faultlines at The Castle in Cape Town (1996) and in the 16th World Wide Video Festival at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998).
In 1999, his work was featured as part of the exhibition Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s–1980s at Queens Museum, New York and Walker Art Center, United States.