Tyler Payne is a visual artist based in Melbourne who has been exhibiting in group shows since 2008. Her first solo show Womanhours was in 2016 at the completion of her Masters of Research at RMIT University, where she currently teaches digital art. Payne has also completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts at Melbourne University in 2010 and an Honours of Fine Arts at RMIT University in 2011. She is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University.
Payne focuses on the genre of self-portraiture to investigate the relationship of women’s embodiment to the lens used in gendered advertising. Her practice focuses on a study of the recent popularization of a range of female cosmetic rituals. She analyzes, re-enacts and documents how these rituals of bodily transformation have reconfigured the social construction of female gender.
