Works from Payne's series studying the housing estate of
Park Hill, Sheffield (UK) – showing its dilapidated state and
Brutalist architecture before renovation – feature in private and public collections including that of the
University of Salford, the Ruskin Collection (Sheffield Museums), and the Newlight Art Prize collection. She has won multiple awards and has received commissions including selection in 2017 for StudioBook - the artist professional development programme with Mark Devereaux Projects (MDP), Manchester – and was awarded Commission to Collect by MDP and the University of Salford Art Collection, to create a new painting considering the impacts of the
Grenfell Tower incident upon Salford's housing developments. (2014, 2016 and 2020), the
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2023, 2022 and also each year from 2014 to 2019), the
Threadneedle Prize (2013) and the
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize (2019). In 2017, she was noted as an artist to watch in the Observer/Guardian Rising Stars list. {{Blockquote|Payne often paints directly with aerosols on to concrete. Her compositions – bold arrangements of blank-faced geometric walls, empty windows and deserted walkways – similarly pull no pictorial punches. {{Blockquote|Her images of Sheffield's Park Hill flats have the power and presence that most artists fail to achieve in a lifetime. As a painter and
print-maker, Payne works on a range of surfaces including paper, concrete, etched aluminium and discarded marble work surfaces or floorboards salvaged from the derelict or decommissioned sites she is depicting. She creates stone
Lithographs of her drawings and her painting materials include various combinations of aerosol paint, roofing sealant, acrylic and lithographic crayon directly onto board or her purpose made concrete slabs. == Life ==