Sonia Payes
Exhibitions
Winter/Spring Salon 2023
Scott Livesey Galleries, 29/07/2023 to 30/09/2023
The 'Winter/Spring Salon' will be a rotating and updating group exhibition throughout Winter 2023.... Read More >
Alchemy
Scott Livesey Galleries, 04/03/2023 to 01/04/2023
“A sense of alchemy an air of enigmatic mystery and transformative power – has always been an element of Payes’ eclectic output.” (Daniel Pateman - UK Arts Writer) Themes of the cycle of life and humanity's ambivalent relationship to the environment fuse together in Sonia Payes’s recent works. Initially true to the process of capturing her world solely through a camera lens, the images of her daughter on which these current works are based beautifully and evocatively describe emergence and revelation. Transforming her daughter’s facial likeness into what Daniel Pateman calls, “a digital avatar that became the defining ... Read More >
Autumn Selection
Scott Livesey Galleries, 14/04/2021 to 08/05/2021
A rotating selection of artworks. ... Read More >
Emergence
Scott Livesey Galleries, 16/08/2017 to 09/09/2017
I learnt many years ago that artists make terrible tourists. Finding themselves in a strange land, tourists gawk and gosh. But artists already come from a strange land – the canvases of their over-active visual acuity. Artists, unlike tourists who escape to their air-conditioned rooms, cannot help but find ways to interact and express their fascination. Artists don’t gawk and gosh, they click and sketch.But Payes found a secondary problem. Where her journeys and adventures allow her to unveil her core fascinations – rebirth and transformation – Africa is a land where such events are abundant and already transparent.Yes, Paye... Read More >
Sonia Payes
Emergence 1
2020
bronze, black patina on a burnt wooden base
51.00 x 27.00 x 12.00 cm
Edition: of 3
$14,800.00
Sonia Payes
Transient Information
lenticular print
120.00 x 89.00 cm
Edition: of 3
In the lenticular print Transient Information, past, present and future are united through the shifting expression of one of Africa’s Maasai population. Emerging from darkness, the piercing white eyes of this scarred but proud figure gaze at us from a place of knowing. As the viewer moves back and forth, a communicative channel between temporalities opens up – a sleek-faced, curious future-self observing their past incarnation – before the indominable warrior’s mortal eyes flash shut. Given that past informs future, and death engenders new life, as the viewer’s perspective changes those eyes flicker between states: resulting in a visually striking illustration of life’s eternal, regenerative cycles. . . . . . . . This work has many images which you’ll see in the lenticular print. This is one of the images.$12,000.00
Sonia Payes
Woman in Bronze
2019
bronze
2.30 metres (height)
Edition: Edition: 3 +AP
This work invites the viewer to explore an internal self-reflection, extending themes of regeneration in an Anthropocene world where humanity has become the dominant influence on climate and the environment. . . . . . . . . ‘Woman in Bronze (2019) is the latest piece from Melbourne based artist Sonia Payes: exploring thematic preoccupations of creation, destruction, and transformation, but through a contemporary lens of growing environmental angst.’ ‘Hybridity is an integral part of her artistic practice, and over a sixteen-year professional career she has combined her foundational photographic work with digital imagery, 3D technologies, animated film and sculpture.’ ‘ Woman in Bronze, a distillation of humanity, Earth, and personified creation, impotently anticipates its own dissolution. But Payes remains hopeful. The sneaking crack that threatens to tear these conjoined unities apart, to divide one into two, also presents a reproductive multiplication. Bearing the visual DNA of the artist’s family – her daughters Ilana and Janine, and their own children – it conveys a fervent belief in life’s potential for regeneration.’ These lines are taken from an essay that is being published internationally soon, by Daniel Pateman, Freelance Arts Writer, U.K. 2019
Sonia Payes
Woman in Bronze
2019
bronze (polished with ceramic overlay)
60.00 x 30.00 x 30.00 cm
Edition: Edition: 2/3
$22,000.00
Sonia Payes
Venus Scape
2016
video still, slim light box, duratran print
124.00 x 209.00 cm
Edition: 1/3
$9,900.00
Sonia Payes
Woman in Silver and Woman in Black
2016
fibreglass and automotive paint
60.00 x 30.00 x 30.00 cm (each)
