Sonia Payes

Woman in Bronze

2023

bronze

1.80 metres (height)

60TH INTERNATIONAL VENICE ART BIENNALE 2024
Personal Structures | Beyond Boundaries - Monument
Giardini Marinaressa 
VENICE, ITALY
20 APR - 24 NOV

The European Cultural Centre (ECC) Italy is showcasing European sculpture artists together with 8 Australian sculptors during the Personal Structures exhibition, located on the expansive waterfront at Giardini Marinaressa. A global celebration of creativity and cultural exchange welcoming artists, curators, collectors and art enthusiasts from every corner of the globe.

Sonia Payes

Metal-Morphosis

2021

3D, Lenticular print, framed

120.00 x 89.00 cm

Edition: 1/2

$12,000.00

Sonia Payes

Emergence 1 in Gold

2020

polished bronze, black burnt wooden base

46.00 x 26.00 x 16.00 cm

Edition: 1/3

$16,800.00

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.
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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: 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.
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‘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.’
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‘ 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: 2/3

$22,000.00

Sonia Payes

Echo - Lorne Sculpture Biennale

2018

installation image

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)

Sonia Payes

Time Warp

2016

3D, Lenticular print, framed

155.00 x 114.00 cm

Edition: 3 + 2 AP

$12,000.00

Sonia Payes

Minerva in Silver

2016

type C print, metallic paper

112.00 x 163.00 cm

Edition: 1/3

$8,500.00

Sonia Payes

McClelland Prize 2014

Sonia Payes

Sea of Ice

2016

C-Type Print